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nearing
THESAURUS
nearing
about to be, access, accession, advance, advancing, advent, afflux, affluxion, already in sight, approach, approaching, appropinquation, approximate, approximating, approximation, approximative, appulse, arm-in-arm, at hand, attracted to, brewing, burning, cheek-by-jowl, close, close at hand, coming, coming near, coming toward, desired, destinal, destined, determined, drawn to, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, flowing toward, forthcoming, future, futuristic, gathering, going to happen, hand-in-hand, hereafter, hoped-for, hot, immediate, imminence, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, instant, intimate, later, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, near, near at hand, near the mark, nearish, nearness, nigh, nighish, on the horizon, oncoming, overhanging, planned, plotted, predicted, preparing, probable, projected, prophesied, propinque, prospective, proximal, proximate, proximation, side-by-side, that will be, threatening, to come, to-be, ultimate, upcoming, vicinal, waiting, warm
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