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[im-pend] / ɪmˈpɛnd /


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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

Edward VI. and Elizabeth, that ruin began finally to impend.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

It seemed to impend ever so slightly, like a margin of faintest shadow edging sunlight; yet it was always there.

From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)




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