futurity
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In doing so, Autje and Neitje firmly establish themselves on the fulcrum of a new futurity — unfamiliar, uncertain, and irresistible.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
In my own scholarship and writing, I’m building up these ideas in ways that feed into conversations within Black feminism, Black studies, Afrofuturism, and debates about our shared history and futurity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
“I love her ability to pivot from conversations around Black futurity that center on the fantastic and spectacular,” Onli added, “and remind us that our future may not look drastically different from our present.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
He broke fast and ran hard when outworking eventual maiden winner Aquachick in prior 12.1 work and showed ability in runnerup debut last May vs. winner Up And Coming, who since captured two futurity trials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
For a moment, we gaped at the imminent futurity of it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
At events called futurities, the bulls could now compete directly against one another, carrying dummy cowboys on their backs while judges rated their bucking ability.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
If all went well, the bull would get sent to thirty-five or forty rodeos a year, earning five to ten thousand in fees and up to a hundred thousand in futurities and other winnings.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
What about that investment in futurities you made on the train?
From Bucky O'Connor by Raine, William MacLeod
He became addicted to dreams, habituated to dealing in futurities that could never come to pass.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
We must therefore not imagine with some Schoolmen, whose ideas tend towards the chimerical, that free contingent futurities have the privilege of exemption from this general rule of the nature of things.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.
