imminent
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The oil-price moderation caused bond traders to back off bets on inflation and an imminent rate hike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2026
“It’s of course an affront to the victims of the Holocaust to to call Germany to abandon its culture of memory, but it’s also an imminent danger to German democracy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026
OpenAI has said that it did not report Van Rootselaar's account at the time of the suspension because it saw no evidence of an imminent attack.
From Barron's • Jul. 7, 2026
Anmuth said the possibility of such a deal will rise “materially” over the next one to two years, though he thinks a merger is not imminent.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026
For several hundred years commentators on the English language have been predicting, lamenting, or celebrating the imminent extinction of the subjunctive mood.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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