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if you say that something is imminent, especially something unpleasant, you mean it is almost certain to happen very soon (There appeared no imminent danger.
• They warned that an attack is imminent.  collinsdictionary.com); liable to happen soon; impending (collinsdictionary.com); likely to occur at any moment; impending (Her death is imminent. collinsdictionary.com); likely to happen without delay; impending; threatening (said of danger, evil, misfortune: But this isn’ t the first time a world leader constructed a wall between himself and those he deemed imminent threats. collinsdictionary.com); ready to take place; happening soon (… systems engineers have become rather blasé about the imminent liftoff. • Often used of something bad or dangerous seen as menacingly near: imminent disaster • Like books, board games appear headed for imminent demise at the hands of cathode-ray terminals.
merriam-webster.com); an event that is imminent, especially an unpleasant one, will happen very soon (imminent danger/threat/death/disaster etc
: The child was in imminent danger of falling into the water. • With the election imminent, Churchill returned to London. • Reports of negotiations have persisted since the Wall Street Journal reported last month that a buyout was imminent. • That is why the imminent decisions are so vital. • Immediately David Stirling ordered Johnny Cooper to rescue their car from imminent destruction. • The implication was clear: the Fed was trying to ward off an imminent recession. ldoceonline.com); about to happen (How could the mother have imagined the imminent danger that was closing in on her son? • This alarm will sound if opened by a small child to alert parents of the imminent danger. • Tiles have fallen from the roof of the small chapel and the entrance archway looks in danger of imminent collapse. • The fourth scenario is similar to the third except that the danger is not as imminent. • I will tell you that it did not appear to be a terrorist event and there is no imminent threat. • In the end, is it about imminent threats or about picking fights you can win? • A number of groups are trying to save our lighthouses in the face of this imminent threat. • But the imminent threat of recession was not the economic fundamental he had in mind. • In the new era which Mark believes is dawning, the temple is rejected and its imminent destruction is expected. • These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse. • A falcon with regard to an expected visitor indicates imminent news or arrival. • The second is messianism, the expectation of imminent transformation of the world. • That leaves the question of how immediate or imminent the threatened violence needs to be. • It was hard to sit in one and not expect the imminent arrival of the drinks trolley. • The imminent use of biological weapons and the threat of millions of deaths is not a laughing matter. • Overall then, there's no sign the payout is in danger, nor any sign of imminent share price fireworks. • As we spoke, the siren of an approaching ambulance warned of the imminent arrival of yet another victim. • The expectation among outsiders oscillates between an imminent rise and an early cut in rates. • An imminent merger means that his colleagues are all threatened with redundancy. • The only difference is that the threat from the former is real and imminent and part of an ongoing development programme. lexico.com) |
