looming
Example Sentences
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The director of the FBI and his longtime girlfriend, country western singer Alexis Wilkins, announced their looming nuptials on social media over the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The looming need to replace her aging Honda also isn’t a major anxiety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
"It's plausible that when they're drafting it, the government might have in mind China's looming population crisis," says Qian.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Brazil, known for its Christ the Redeemer statue looming over Rio de Janeiro, hosts the world's second-largest Christian population after the United States, according to the Pew Research Center.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
John Kennedy had spoken often of some sort of looming showdown with the Soviet Union, some eyeball-to-eyeball moment that would shove the future one way or the other.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
