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“Decline and disaster impend, but my thoughts don’t linger there.”

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2017

An international incident seemed to impend when the Rumanian ghouls incautiously admitted that they had pulled the corpse this way and that, in an effort to find contraband goods in the coffin.

From Time Magazine Archive

But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity."

From Time Magazine Archive

When the idea of an authoritative revelation of divine truth has been finally dislodged, there are moments when moral chaos seems to impend.

From The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

The imagination of the beholder was subtly stimulated to conceive the ultimate worst of that which might impend, which is the climax of fear.

From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Norman Duncan

Especially after Disher and Givens marry in Georgia, and a baby of likely mixed race impends, the musical pushes too hard toward tragedy, winding up well short at melodrama.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

And it being the middle of May mosquito season impends.

From US News ● May 13, 2016

Peril impends when a note comes announcing that her visit must be put off.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2011

Not until failure impends are directors apt to realize their liability for proper conduct of a bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a citizen of Pittsburg will pay no more than one hundred dollars for the use of a table to eat from at the Pallida you may be sure that a panic impends.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson

When Addison's Disease and its treatment came up for report at Philadelphia, a fight for glory impended.

From Time Magazine Archive

In another Manhattan art-huckstering shop, one more sale impended in the life of a vase once owned by Catherine the Great and later smashed by Napoleon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last.

From Time Magazine Archive

Talks important to Britain impended with the arrival of U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

For the last few weeks, the Rams have practiced in the late afternoon, which aligns body clock-wise with their impending morning kickoff in Melbourne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The warnings had come from four different people in the space of minutes and helped him evaluate the impending danger.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner made bold predictions about the impending arrival of superintelligence in a 165-page manifesto called “Situational Awareness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Oura gathers a range of health data including heart rate and sleep patterns and uses them to develop predictions and personalized insights in areas such as impending illness and menstrual cycles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

People pack every seat in the house today, in spite of the windy weather and impending blackouts.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu