Certain and Impending

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Certain adjective - Known but not named.

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Impending and certain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Impending" instead an adjective "Certain".

Nearby Words: certainty, certainly

Impending adjective - Being soon to appear or take place.

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Certain and impending are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Certain" instead an adjective "Impending".

Nearby Words: impendent, impended

And You Thought It Was a Game: The entire novel is based around certain popular video games actually being training simulations for an impending alien invasion.

Source: Literature / Armada
Jean offhandedly asks about where a certain note (which warned of Captain Boomerang's impending attempt on Jack Drake's life) came from.

Source: Comic Book / Identity Crisis
Apparently, raven as actually quite pleasant animals... but they're still certain harbingers of impending doom.

Source: Creepy Crows

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