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to-be

adjective as in incoming

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What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

In the years to come, Wha became a legendary starting out spot for various soon-to-be rock stars.

Perhaps ascribing a distaste for the Oscar winner and soon-to-be Interstellar star is an overstatement.

It was 2008 and Michael Keaton had just met soon-to-be-president Barack Obama.

Feel free to use this sort-of-sad break up as a practice run for the sure-to-be-devastating demise of Bey and Jay.

"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

Next night at dinner I proposed Sir Alister's health, and we all drank to him and his "bride-to-be."

The fun, when the school broke up for the term, was of the never-to-be-forgotten variety.

And if he ever saw one, his corpse-to-be was a methodical little piece of humanity.

Flinging wide the glass door, we stepped out upon the terrace of the pergola-to-be, and looked toward the new bird bath.

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On this page you'll find 150 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to to-be, such as: anticipated, expected, forthcoming, impending, subsequent, and advancing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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