offing
Example Sentences
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Interviewed on the podcast Top Traders Unplugged, White sketched out the problems facing advanced economies at present and delivered a disconcerting warning of the systemic failure he thinks may be in the offing.
From MarketWatch
Long closed to new money, Maple Rock handed some profits this year back to clients, with plans for more distributions in the offing, the people said.
One unicorn - a tech start-up valued at more than $1bn - has made its debut on the country's stock markets, and two more are in the offing.
From BBC
“There’s no stage at which profound public rejection isn’t in the offing,” he says, dryly.
From Los Angeles Times
He agreed with Secretary Vance that to oppose it “would be foregoing an option that we could exercise in the event a peaceful solution is not in the offing.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
