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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

Naturalists with a taste for mathematics tell us of the appalling catastrophe which would impend if every codfish were to reach maturity.

From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

We crossed this beautiful river at Bellows Falls, where a neat and thriving village has its seat among craggy mountains, which, at a little distance, seem to impend over it.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant

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

Some businessmen already fear a depression impends over the U. S. The boat chuffed along the greening, creek-cut shore of Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vt., an afternoon last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

The danger which impends daily and every day ceases to be feared.

From In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman

Other German defeats in other areas impended: > At Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis 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

But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel.

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

In the scene, set just before the events of 2002’s “Resident Evil,” executives at the diabolical Umbrella Corporation gather to discuss the world’s impending end.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Signs are emerging that the latest attacks could trigger an acute market panic, with Brent crude buyers paying a steep premium for early delivery — an indication that the industry fears an impending supply crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rangers had proposed a reduced away allocation of 300 for the impending cup tie, with Celtic rejecting the offer.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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

As he stands, hands on hips, nodding at the Blue Flash, I think about impending weightless doom.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven