Imminent
Imminent adjective - Being soon to appear or take place.
Usage example: an imminent development that should radically transform how we treat the disease
Nearby Words: imminence, imminently
Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Both words in one sentence
- At the climax of American Gods, Shadow diffuses an imminent war between the old and new gods with a short but effective speech laying out how it was all part of Odin's conspiracy to get themselves to kill each other in his name.
Source: Verbal Judo - Anytime a program is interrupted by a news bulletin involving some calamity or, even worse, an "Emergency Alert Notification" of the style of the old CONELRAD and Emergency Broadcast System, which anyone over the age of 40 was conditioned to treat as a warning of imminent nuclear attack.
Source: Mood Whiplash / Real Life
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