down the pike
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Big investments in reducing emissions from the transportation sector — which makes up the bulk of the state’s greenhouse gas pollution — are also coming down the pike.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024
“Any contraction that is happening was coming down the pike regardless, in my opinion.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2023
On a recent Zoom call, Voices of Alzheimer’s board members — most of whom have MCI or moderate Alzheimer’s — angrily discussed Medicare’s refusal to cover Leqembi and similar drugs coming down the pike.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023
There’s meaning here for what’s coming down the pike.
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2023
Even though the next morning he would leave on a dangerous mission, even though he knew something terrible was coming down the pike, those words of Mr. Benedict’s had made all good things seem possible.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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