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offing

noun as in bump-off

noun as in homicide

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While Reeves demurred on future acquisitions, Gusto’s focus on expanding to a comprehensive financial wellness platform for both employees and businesses would likely suggest that additional acquisitions may well be in the offing in the future.

Around 36,000 people had died worldwide, no one knew if second or third waves were in the offing, and there were no vaccines.

From Quartz

Around 36,000 people had died worldwide, no one knew for sure if second or third waves were in the offing, and there were no vaccines.

From Quartz

Media management firm Ebiquity has something similar in the offing.

From Digiday

Where we thought we had discovered new life, we had merely found evidence of a home repair in the offing.

Julian Fellowes can save his show by offing the target of his sadism.

In that groaner, Burt is convinced he is going to die soon and sets about offing himself.

If their corner does not have the lights to see what is in the offing, then the boxer has to have the mettle to say “enough.”

So Israelis and Americans hearing seductive sonatas on this visit need brace themselves for the inevitable deeds in the offing.

There is an untold number of other Zimmermans out there, waiting to protect the white race by offing a Young Black Male.

The wind now began to lessen; and, for fear of being becalmed, I was anxious to get an offing.

In the offing is a low wooded island of more than a mile in diameter.

In the offing are several rocky islets, particularly one, a high rock, which is very remarkable.

Yet she was wise enough to see that in the offing the same danger of debt threatened them if they were not very, very careful.

In leaving the pontoon for the offing, the various craft increase in size as the water deepens.

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On this page you'll find 123 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to offing, such as: destiny, fate, millennium, outlook, prospect, and eternity.

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

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