impend
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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
Yet if such odium did inevitably impend above me, I have ever been of this mind, that I regard that hatred which is earned by honorable duty not as reproach, but glory!
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
One speaks upon occasion, giving him warning when grave troubles impend.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle
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
Can we, the republics of the New World, help the Old World to avert the catastrophe which impends?
From Time Magazine Archive
If my suspicions are not groundless, I offer you the means of saving yourself from the calamity that impends.
From Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue by Warren T. Ashton
Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis impended.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Addison's Disease and its treatment came up for report at Philadelphia, a fight for glory impended.
From Time Magazine Archive
No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot.
From Time Magazine Archive
In another Manhattan art-huckstering shop, one more sale impended in the life of a vase once owned by Catherine the Great and later smashed by Napoleon.
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
The warnings had come from four different people in the space of minutes and helped him evaluate the impending danger.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, John, David, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the newest drama enveloping semi-royals Prince Harry and Meghan after they announced an impending move back to the UK.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Raman’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the impending shakeup, which was reported earlier by the California Post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
On social media, leaks of impending purges often appear in subtle forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Thankfully, the meatball sub had averted the impending Laleh-clysm.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Vocabulary lists containing impend
Latin Love, Vol III: pendere
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe
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