the future
noun
1
: the events that will happen after the present time
It's impossible to predict the future.
2
grammar
: a verb tense that is used to refer to the future : future tense
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The federal Health and Human Services Department announced plans Aug. 5 to cancel 22 investment projects worth nearly $500 million using the same technology used to develop covid-19 vaccines, with further plans to reduce taxpayer money going to similar projects in the future.
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Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2025
And that changes who gets to participate in the future of AI.
—Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Critics have condemned the advancement of the plan, citing fears that this split would prove detrimental to any possibility of a Palestinian state in the future.
—Olivia-Anne Cleary, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
Set in the future, Running Man follows a man who joins a game show where contestants, who are allowed to go anywhere in the world as they are pursued by hunters hired to kill them.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2025
And that changes who gets to participate in the future of AI.
—Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Critics have condemned the advancement of the plan, citing fears that this split would prove detrimental to any possibility of a Palestinian state in the future.
—Olivia-Anne Cleary, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
Set in the future, Running Man follows a man who joins a game show where contestants, who are allowed to go anywhere in the world as they are pursued by hunters hired to kill them.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the future
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“The future.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20future. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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