looms

verb

present tense third-person singular of loom
as in brews
to be about to happen he tried to take a proactive approach to dealing with the problems that loomed ahead

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Recent Examples of looms But the question still looms over the party’s first wide-open primaries in eight years. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026 The answer lay in selvedge, a denim woven on old-fashioned shuttle looms that Western manufacturers had long abandoned for being too slow. — Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026 All the garments are handmade and made by artisans using foot pedal looms more than a century old and passed down through generations of artisans, the company said. — Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2026 And now those still left in the battered city along Ukraine's southeastern front face death from hunger or disease as another harsh winter looms, with no agreement in sight for even a humanitarian evacuation. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 And now those still left in the battered city along Ukraine’s southeastern front face death from hunger or disease as another harsh winter looms, with no agreement in sight for even a humanitarian evacuation. — Yuras Karmanau, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2026 No similar pressure appears to have been put on Russia, which has continued a relentless bombardment of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure that has cut off electricity, heat, and water supplies as winter looms. — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2026 The memory of Lorca, who was assassinated by the Nationalists, looms over the movie, whose title is that of a play by him. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2026 The film opens with Tenzing as a boy, gawking at Mount Everest, which looms across the valley like Godzilla. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looms
  1. brews
  2. hovers
  3. approaches
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  • Read More The compact Keurig K-Express brews single cups of K-Cup coffee pods, with a 48 ounce reservoir for fewer refills.
    — Brad Bourque, The Verge, 7 Oct. 2026
  • There’s no point in debating with customers whether the perfect pot of tea or espresso coffee brews better at temperatures that don’t peel the skin from the roof of your mouth.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of brews
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  • But when Alexander saw the green machine, the tree excavator, feet away from the 100-year-old oak tree that hovers over the corner of Salem Drive and Idlewood Circle, that was not fine.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The band hovers in a razor-thin lacuna between heaven and hell, between ascension and purgatory, on the verge of going either way.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of hovers
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  • As the country approaches its 250th birthday, roughly half of Americans say the American Dream no longer holds true, and younger generations are on track to earn less than their parents.
    — Heather Occhino, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Communing with her fans is part of the Chinouriri experience, so much so that anyone who approaches her for a photo is also met with a real conversation.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of approaches

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“Looms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looms. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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