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How to pronounce imminence in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency
Type of state
Derivation imminent

Examples of imminence

imminence
It's a meditation on creativity, failure, decrepitude and the imminence of death.
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Ever present in Homer is the imminence of brewing nor'easters and hurricanes.
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The imminence of one more Kennedy in Washington felt like terminal overload.
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Yes, as now, there were arguments among scientists about the imminence of the threat.
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Nothing in this scene overtly suggests the imminence of comic catastrophe.
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Its fundamental belief was in the unity and imminence of God in the world.
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From this belief came the first evidence of the doctrine of imminence.
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The imminence of Underworld has been talked and written about for months.
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The intelligence estimates just didn't really support that imminence.
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More examples
  • The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
  • (imminent) at hand(p): close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement"
  • Ant-Zen Audio and Visual Arts is a German independent record label founded in 1994 by Stefan Alt (aka recording artist S.Alt), who serves as the art director. Visual arts from Ant-Zen are typically bleak but astonishing landscapes, or microscopic studies of what is often overlooked...
  • (imminent) about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long
  • (IMMINENT) Intelligence has identified an individual or group within Canada or abroad, which is assessed as having the capability and the intent to commit an act of serious violence against a specific target in the immediate future.
  • (Imminent) (adjective) ready to take place
  • (Imminent) Impending; menacingly close at hand; threatening.
  • (Imminent) means "close to happening or near": Everyone waited anxiously for an imminent storm predicted to arrive shortly.
  • The belief that an event is about to occur in the near future. e.g. the Second Coming.