Imminent
Imminent adjective - Giving signs of immediate occurrence.
Planned and imminent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Planned" instead an adjective "Imminent".
Nearby Words: imminence, imminently
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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This planned for Soviet forces to carefully concentrate their forces for a preemptive offensive to disrupt an imminent German invasion of the Soviet Union, or to meet it head-on when it arrived.
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An episode of The Six Million Dollar Man featured the threat of an imminent catastrophic earthquake in the San Andreas Fault, and the good guys planned to use a nuclear explosion to move the epicentre in order to reduce the damage.
Source: Deus Ex Nukina -
First exiled to an embassy for speaking out against a planned massacre of a village controlled by The Empire, he defects to the hero party when the empire attacks the island he was sent to under false pretenses of protecting the empire from the other kingdom's non-existent imminent assault.
Source: Defector from Decadence
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