impend
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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
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
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
Besides a deficit of $529,000 incurred last year, a 1934 deficit of $500,000 impends.
From Time Magazine Archive
Save from the ruin that impends Thy town, thy people, and thy friends; O hear the warning urged once more: To Raghu's son the dame restore.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Talks important to Britain impended with the arrival of U.S.
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
After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
One story for Wakefield to thrive upon is the impending retirement of stalwart back-rower Jay Pitts.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The satire from director Alejandro González Iñárritu about an impending climate change apocalypse has divided critics, yielding very mixed reviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
A spate of new projects in the U.S. and around the globe had fueled fears of an impending supply glut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
Mrs. Rimas tried to negotiate advance rations for the impending storm.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
Vocabulary lists containing impend
Latin Love, Vol III: pendere
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe
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