about to

And Virginia D. Aderholt decoded the intercepted message from the Japanese that they were about to surrender, which ended the war.

If they were frustrated, it was nothing compared to the state they were about to get themselves.

From the phone call we’d just had, I was becoming aware that this difference between us was about to be tested.

The choice of Fox News celebrity Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense was the first inkling that this was about to go seriously off the rails.

But the pendulum is about to swing hard in the other direction.