Synonyms for looming
loom·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "looming":

   impending, looms, loom

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1. Christen kuikoua:

   War is approaching, its presence imminent—a divine instruction, a call to arms. In the face of this looming threat, the fervent call echoes: Pray, pray, and pray again, for in prayer lies the shield that may spare you from the grasp of death.

2. William Nee:

   Sports fans around the world will be paying attention to this story, which includes billions of people, this is an absolutely looming disaster for the Chinese government. Every day that gets closer to the Winter The Beijing Olympics, the disaster gets bigger and bigger for them -- if they don't resolve this.

3. Barack Obama:

   A lot of what drives bad race relations is scarcity in the working-class populations, we have all of these looming questions with globalization and downsizing. These are underlying structural problems.

4. Chin Leng Lim:

   You've got a slowing economy in China, a huge push on exports, a pushback on the part of producers in the United States and an election looming, while there is a question hanging around some of the rules of the game. It's going to be exciting.

5. Joseph Cirincione:

   Every single weapon in the nuclear arsenal is now due for replacement or an upgrade. It's a looming disaster.