imminently

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Recent Examples of imminently With hundreds being laid off across the BBC and Channel 4, a new content chief set to be imminently announced at the latter, and the mergers at Sky-ITV and Banijay-All3Media taking hold, there was plenty to address. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026 No credible experts are saying that the Kessler syndrome could happen imminently—a single collision won’t set off a Gravity-style cascade. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026 Special projects that are not imminently needed or justified, and excess staffing in duplication of jobs. — Peggy Gossett-Seidman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026 Now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will both imminently receive an official risk assessment given their return to Britain, according to The Telegraph newspaper. — Max Foster, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 With so much of the frenzied James Bond interest centered on who might be taking over from Daniel Craig as 007, something many believe is going to be announced imminently, the matter of the all-important script has largely been ignored. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026 That led to some extreme measures being discussed, including reports this week that the SEC was prepared to vote imminently to expel LSU from the conference entirely. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Those with recently terminated or imminently ending TPS told the Register conditions in their home countries are still unsafe. — Isabelle Foland, Des Moines Register, 8 Sep. 2026 The spacecraft recently got its last glimpse of terrestrial light before being encapsulated in its rocket's protective payload fairing last week and is imminently bound for liftoff. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imminently
Adverb
  • Samuel, or Samuil in Bulgarian, was a warrior emperor who battled the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom but was ultimately defeated and died shortly afterward in 1014.
    — COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • He was taken to a hospital with serious facial injuries but died shortly afterward, according to TASS.
    — Arina Porkhovnik, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • The rare show of alignment among fierce rivals was soon countered by comments from Meta’s Zuckerberg and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, both of whom dismissed the slowdown idea.
    — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Now, the full-scale deployment of the ClarosTechUV PFAS destruction system is soon to take place at Daikin’s manufacturing facility in Decatur.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • The novel is elongated by ellipses…as if our heroine momentarily loses not words…but consciousness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The two giggled momentarily before Quiñonez turned back and answered candidly.
    — Jake McCreven, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • The artist ultimately spent seven months in the hospital recovering from his near-death ordeal.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The case went to the local district attorney’s office, which ultimately declined to bring criminal charges.
    — Shayna Jacobs, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • After his sudden death in 1960, Olivetti began a slow decline and was eventually broken up and merged with a telecommunications company.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • According to Polymarket’s own newsy reconstruction in its magazine-like imprint The Oracle, more than $21 million eventually traded in that one market, while Biden’s withdrawal produced the platform’s highest-volume day to that point.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Though Paulina typically spends her days belittling her friends and humiliating Nana, presently, her focus is on something grander.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
  • As if a Monday-night football outing weren’t enough, Cruise—who is presently promoting his new film Digger, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu—also appeared on Kelce and his brother Jason’s New Heights podcast.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • This question has been part of the series’ fabric from the beginning, as Adam forgave Charles for nearly killing him, and Lee forgave Adam for taking him for granted, and finally Cal and Aron personify what the refusal to forgive looks like.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • If anyone can reconstruct Apéry’s reasoning, the odd values of zeta may finally be proven irrational.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Imminently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imminently. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

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