offing
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Rosa Boshier is a writer and artist whose work has been featured in publications such as The Offing, Necessary Fiction, the Acentos Review and Los Angeles Review of Books.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2019
Offing the main villain in the first 10 minutes, then doing a five-year jump was very unlike Marvel up to that point.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2019
An Alarm in the Offing on Climate Change The natural conservatism of science has often led climatologists to be cautious in their pronouncements about global warming.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2013
Books of The Times: Not a Hint of the Storms in the Offing Condoleezza Rice wrote a memoir about her family and her life before working for former President George W. Bush.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2010
The South-West swell still keeping up we stood to the North-West all this day with a prest Sail in order to get an Offing.
From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by Cook, James
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