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going to
About to, will, as in I'm going to start planting now, or Do you think it's going to rain? or We thought the train was going to stop here. This phrase is used with a verb (start, rain, stop in the examples) to show the future tense. Occasionally the verb is omitted because it is understood. For example, That wood hasn't dried out yet but it's going to soon, or Will you set the table?—Yes, I'm going to. [1400s] Also see go to.
Example Sentences
We were going to shut down New York Times Square and everything.
"If it can do all mundane human intellectual labor, then what new jobs is it going to create? You'd have to be very skilled to have a job that it couldn't just do."
“So we’re going to put out everything that we think is of the highest quality.”
This is going to impact all of us.
For a moment, I thought he was going to fly away up into the sky.
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