futurity

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

Presented in tense, terse fragments of scenes, these meetings bring to mind an idea of futurity posed by the Black feminist scholar Tina Campt: “a performance of a future that hasn’t happened but must.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

He was a three-time Grade 1 futurity finalist here last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 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

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

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

Guesses at futurities were made from the falling of a crumb of bread out of one's mouth or a staff from a man's hand, from a person sneezing, or the breaking of a shoe-latchet.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant

"Concerning an investment in futurities I'm making," he continued.

From Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine

It was richly in unison with his own nature, and I believe he had a ravishing vision of its magnificent futurities.

From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller