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“Decline and disaster impend, but my thoughts don’t linger there.”

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2017

But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity."

From Time Magazine Archive

An international incident seemed to impend when the Rumanian ghouls incautiously admitted that they had pulled the corpse this way and that, in an effort to find contraband goods in the coffin.

From Time Magazine Archive

To Hugh a crisis seemed to impend, but he held off for the Gilmores, who seemed to be used to crises.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

Besides, it is not only from the Sun that evil would impend, if the Earth were to stay still and be deprived of solar benefit; but from the Moon also serious dangers would threaten.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Especially after Disher and Givens marry in Georgia, and a baby of likely mixed race impends, the musical pushes too hard toward tragedy, winding up well short at melodrama.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

And it being the middle of May mosquito season impends.

From US News ● May 13, 2016

Peril impends when a note comes announcing that her visit must be put off.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2011

The East has yet to feel the full impact, but without doubt it impends.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have heard the voice Of the Eternal Gods, and well-assured Foretell thee that thy death not now impends.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

When Addison's Disease and its treatment came up for report at Philadelphia, a fight for glory impended.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis impended.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other German defeats in other areas impended: > At Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Meza said when she learned of the impending closure, she and her parents called around to neighboring mobile home parks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Markets are also on alert for the impending release of the latest Federal Open Market Committee minutes due Wednesday, which could offer insight into the Fed’s interest-rate path.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Tonali's impending exit was crucial, though, to enable Newcastle to create further headroom within the game's financial rules to reinvest in several areas of the side.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

This time around, Enola’s impending wedding is interrupted when she learns Sherlock’s been kidnapped and needs rescuing.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

I strained against the cords, overwhelmed by a sense of impending doom.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros