up-and-coming

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

About to happen
about
at handidiom
be on the point of (doing) somethingidiom
be ready to rollidiom
beckon
come up
corner
horizon
impend
impending
in the airidiom
in the pipelineidiom
in-store
loom
pipeline
ready
stare
stare someone in the faceidiom
store
teeter

upcoming | American Dictionary

upcoming
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈʌpˌkʌm·ɪŋ/
happening soon:
Party officials met to nominate candidates for the upcoming election.

upcoming | Business English

upcoming
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈʌpˌkʌmɪŋ/us
happening soon:
Check the website for a calendar of upcoming events.
The company's upcoming flotation on the stock market illustrates the good health of the technology sector.

Examples of upcoming

upcoming
As such, the book is a useful introduction to the work of several young and upcoming scholars.
The debate revolved around the party's programme for the upcoming general elections.
At short intervals and without knowledge of the upcoming target, individuals responded with a middle, "default" response.
In the case of hypnotic involuntariness, the person has a very clear and well-rehearsed idea of the upcoming action.
One may, for example, be asked to participate in a drill while imagining that one is playing in the upcoming championship.
On the other hand, new techniques have been developed to integrate legacy and proprietary systems with new upcoming component-based applications.
The regime agreed to immediate but modest reforms focused on the upcoming election.
To minimize damage, the upcoming fall must be detected and a proper "bracing" action must be taken.
The publisher and the editorial board will try to continue to improve the service to readers and authors during the upcoming years.
For example, the development is often aligned with the evolution, and thus the requirements, of an upcoming experiment.
First, it is necessary to obtain the word-boundary information that is needed to program saccades to upcoming words.
In discussions of the upcoming album, the conventional ideology of authenticity, with its contrast between sincerity and commercialism, was largely absent from the e-mail list.
More testing is planned within simulated atmospheres in upcoming months.
The model also predicts parafoveal preview effects because the left-most letters of upcoming words are often identified before the words are actually fixated.
Each chapter opens with a quote that pertains to the upcoming topic, and the quotes become more meaningful after the chapter is completed and understood.
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