Afoot
adverb
In progress, happening or beginning to happen right now.
There are plans afoot to increase business efficiency.
Often appears as...
- plans afoot
- something afoot
adverb
In progress, happening or beginning to happen right now.
There are plans afoot to increase business efficiency.
Often appears as...
- plans afoot
- something afoot
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Pro Tip 1/3Present Activities
Used to describe activities currently happening or being planned.
You've arrived at the perfect time, something exciting is afoot!
Pro Tip 2/3Slight Secrecy
Suggests that there is a hint of secrecy, or something is not completely obvious.
She entered the room and immediately sensed that there was mischief afoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Change
Indicates that change could be happening soon.
With the new management, there are changes afoot in our company's policies.
Pro Tip 1/3Present Activities
Used to describe activities currently happening or being planned.
You've arrived at the perfect time, something exciting is afoot!
Pro Tip 2/3Slight Secrecy
Suggests that there is a hint of secrecy, or something is not completely obvious.
She entered the room and immediately sensed that there was mischief afoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Change
Indicates that change could be happening soon.
With the new management, there are changes afoot in our company's policies.
Pro Tip 1/3Present Activities
Used to describe activities currently happening or being planned.
You've arrived at the perfect time, something exciting is afoot!
Pro Tip 2/3Slight Secrecy
Suggests that there is a hint of secrecy, or something is not completely obvious.
She entered the room and immediately sensed that there was mischief afoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Change
Indicates that change could be happening soon.
With the new management, there are changes afoot in our company's policies.
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Penelope Boston: Life on...
is maybe one in four to maybe even half and half. So this is a very bold statement. I think it's there, and I think we need to go look for it, and I think it's underground. So the game's afoot, and this is the game that we play in astro-biology. How do you try to get a handle on extraterrestrial life? How do you plan to look for it?
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3 secrets to Netflix's...
debates and dreams afoot in the company to expand beyond that for example into interactivity i think i think video games in general have been a huge uh winner in the uh in the pandemic and people a lot of people have just got lost in these sort of virtual worlds do you have a role to play in
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There's no such thing as...
Well, we do have to push back against efforts afoot all across the country right now to make voting harder. But at the same time, we have to actively create a positive culture of voting that people want to belong to, be part of, and experience together. We have to make purpose.
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How fake handbags fund...
and start your shopping search all over again, but you didn't get ripped off, so that's only a good thing. As the world's most famous fictional detective would say, "Watson, the game is afoot." Only this time, my investigator friends, the game is painfully real.
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Can a divided America...
that we haven't seen for a long time. People don't just disagree in the way that we're familiar with, on the left-right political divide. There are much deeper differences afoot. What on earth is going on, and how did we get here? This is different.
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Black Women and the...
get to the polls ever if they continue to be ground down by the scourge of intimidation and by lynchings violence um so black women are continuing the work of anti-lynching by the time we get to the 19-teens there's an effort afoot in congress to
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Safari Live - Day 242 PIPE...
this with excitement their tails up something is afoot they hunting whether they are going to steal food from someone whether they are other hyena in the area that they're going to compete with it's hard to say child at the universe is a great
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Advocating for gender...
apparatus of the UN was never employed to tell the world what was afoot the secretary-general made the occasional reference in speeches but mostly his conduct mirrored his approach to all other issues involving women and
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Tim Berners-Lee: The...
to show you, in fact, there is an open data movement afoot, now, around the world. The cry of "Raw data now!" which I made people make in the auditorium, was heard around the world.
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The case of the...
There is an environmental mystery afoot, and it begins with a seemingly trivial detail
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Penelope Boston: Life on...
is maybe one in four to maybe even half and half. So this is a very bold statement. I think it's there, and I think we need to go look for it, and I think it's underground. So the game's afoot, and this is the game that we play in astro-biology. How do you try to get a handle on extraterrestrial life? How do you plan to look for it?
Video examples
3 secrets to Netflix's...
debates and dreams afoot in the company to expand beyond that for example into interactivity i think i think video games in general have been a huge uh winner in the uh in the pandemic and people a lot of people have just got lost in these sort of virtual worlds do you have a role to play in
Video examples
There's no such thing as...
Well, we do have to push back against efforts afoot all across the country right now to make voting harder. But at the same time, we have to actively create a positive culture of voting that people want to belong to, be part of, and experience together. We have to make purpose.
Video examples
How fake handbags fund...
and start your shopping search all over again, but you didn't get ripped off, so that's only a good thing. As the world's most famous fictional detective would say, "Watson, the game is afoot." Only this time, my investigator friends, the game is painfully real.
Video examples
Can a divided America...
that we haven't seen for a long time. People don't just disagree in the way that we're familiar with, on the left-right political divide. There are much deeper differences afoot. What on earth is going on, and how did we get here? This is different.
Video examples
Black Women and the...
get to the polls ever if they continue to be ground down by the scourge of intimidation and by lynchings violence um so black women are continuing the work of anti-lynching by the time we get to the 19-teens there's an effort afoot in congress to
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 242 PIPE...
this with excitement their tails up something is afoot they hunting whether they are going to steal food from someone whether they are other hyena in the area that they're going to compete with it's hard to say child at the universe is a great
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
apparatus of the UN was never employed to tell the world what was afoot the secretary-general made the occasional reference in speeches but mostly his conduct mirrored his approach to all other issues involving women and
Video examples
Tim Berners-Lee: The...
to show you, in fact, there is an open data movement afoot, now, around the world. The cry of "Raw data now!" which I made people make in the auditorium, was heard around the world.
Video examples
The case of the...
There is an environmental mystery afoot, and it begins with a seemingly trivial detail
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Stacey D'Erasmo
American Novelist
As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.
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Richard J. Roberts
English Scientist
Hard as it is to imagine, there's a move afoot in Congress to take away the public's free online access to tax-funded medical research findings. That would be bad for medical discovery, bad for patients looking for the latest research results, and another rip-off of the American taxpayer.
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Michael Ashcroft
British Businessman
The Conservatives do not want to go into an election with the leaders' relative ratings as they are - but it is depressing to hear that plans are afoot to paint Miliband as the Michael Dukakis of British politics: part of a metropolitan elite with no understanding of mainstream concerns.
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Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.
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Phil Lesh
American Musician
And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
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Bobby Wallace
American Athlete
As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
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Cate Blanchett
Australian Actress
For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
Quote examples
Stacey D'Erasmo
American Novelist
As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.
Quote examples
Michelle Dean
American Journalist
It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.
Quote examples
Richard J. Roberts
English Scientist
Hard as it is to imagine, there's a move afoot in Congress to take away the public's free online access to tax-funded medical research findings. That would be bad for medical discovery, bad for patients looking for the latest research results, and another rip-off of the American taxpayer.
Quote examples
Michael Ashcroft
British Businessman
The Conservatives do not want to go into an election with the leaders' relative ratings as they are - but it is depressing to hear that plans are afoot to paint Miliband as the Michael Dukakis of British politics: part of a metropolitan elite with no understanding of mainstream concerns.
Quote examples
Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.
Quote examples
Phil Lesh
American Musician
And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
Quote examples
Bobby Wallace
American Athlete
As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
Quote examples
Cate Blanchett
Australian Actress
For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
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