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impending

/ɪmˈpɛndɪŋ/ noun C2
  1. Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.

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There was the news of a revolution, of a possible war, and of an impending change of government; but these did not come within the horizon of my companion.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 1 · B2
A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 44 · B2
I am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a feeling of impending danger—ever present danger, which is the more terrible because I am unable to define it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 127 · C1

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