immanent

Example Sentences

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“Folks who had some sort of eviction judgment put off or postponed are now facing immanent eviction,” he said.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021

Many live together in agricultural cooperatives, where they prepare for the immanent apocalypse that, they believe, will restore the communal agrarian society of the Inca empire.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2020

In the summer of 1914, each of the great powers reached the conclusion that war was inevitable, and that trying to stay out of the immanent conflict would lead to national decline.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Three spotted eagle rays, as exquisitely patterned as ocelots, glide side by side toward an immanent blackness, as indifferent to Vizl, it seems, as the limestone wall is to the climber.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2019

If you mean “inherent,” “present,” or “dwelling within,” the word is the rarely heard immanent.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner