Philip Johnson

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

American Architect

Diane Ackerman

Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.

American Poet

Naveen Jain

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Indian Businessman

Navjot Singh Sidhu

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

Indian Entertainer

Bill Dedman

Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

American Journalist

Naby Keita

As kids, we played on the streets without shoes, and the game didn't stop for oncoming traffic.

Athlete

David Lee Roth

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

American Musician

Tina Brown

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

American Editor

Robert Lowell

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

English Author

Use 'oncoming' to refer to potential danger that is quickly approaching and needs immediate attention.

Immediate Danger

'Oncoming' often describes something you can see moving towards you, not abstract concepts.

Visual Perception

'Oncoming' implies a need to be vigilant or to take action due to the proximity of the approach.

Time Sensitivity

'Oncoming' suggests something will happen soon, often requiring preparation or anticipation.

Near Future

Use 'oncoming' when referring to events or occasions that need planning, like holidays or meetings.

Event Planning

When seasons or weather conditions are about to change, 'oncoming' highlights the imminent shift.

Impending Change

 two major movies hit theaters both featuring killer impacts from outer space in armageddon bruce willis leads a ragtag crew to nuke an oncoming asteroid which by the way is something that only works in the movies and in deep impact president morgan freeman gives a rousing speech after

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 And people still wonder why there are boys rotting, they go away in high school hallways they are afraid of becoming another hashtag in a second afraid of classroom discussions becoming like judgment day and now oncoming traffic is embracing more transgender children than parents.

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 Researchers think that ground sloths could have been pushed out by an oncoming ice age, or competition with other species, maybe humans, who arrived in the region around the time most of the sloths went extinct. Some of the smaller sloths did survive and migrated to the treetops.

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 which helps it determine the direction of the water’s flow. This way, a squid can sense an oncoming predator in even the dimmest waters. Aware of the threat, a squid can then mask itself from a predator. Squid skin contains thousands of tiny organs called chromatophores,

How squids outsmart...

 what's most puzzling is why manatees don't swim away from the noisy motors of oncoming boats dr. Edmund Gerstein has been puzzling over this question for nearly three decades ad began to unravel the mysteries with the help of two captive red manatees trained to perform

Building a Manatee Boat...

 sandy can take us there and if you wanted to cross the street safely you would lose the headlamps of oncoming traffic to tell you if it was safe to cross the brides of the headlamps the clothes of the car would be to you and you'd know it's probably better to stay

Making sense of...

 don't swim away from the noisy motors of oncoming boats dr. Edmund Gerstein has been puzzling over this question for nearly three decades Edie began to unravel the mystery with the help of two captive-bred manatees trained to perform simple tasks but we

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 for an arch-gravity dam. This design curves upstream, using the force of oncoming water to push the structure into its supports— in this case, the canyon walls. Arch dams have been built since ancient times, but never on such a massive scale.

Blood, concrete, and...

 fish boat as it was called used fins or diving planes to submerge and surface when they were pointed down oncoming water drove the sub deeper with one pointed up water flowing beneath lifted it toward the surface everything from

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 and appears to be protected from any oncoming wave. The matriarch whale, however, has a plan. Working in a coordinated way,