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not about to

  1. see about to, def. 2.



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He’s not about to support the country in its pursuit of Big Fountain Pen.

Investors keep adding to a mountain of cash in money-market funds — and it’s not about to flood into riskier assets in the stock and bond markets, despite the Federal Reserve recently resuming its interest-rate-cutting cycle, according to research from J.P.

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This latest storm may blow over, but Cold War II is not about to stop.

Investors who try to mimic government investing have seen a payoff in recent years, and according to the chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management, that trend is not about to stop.

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But the scrupulously low-key Rubio was not about to do it in public.

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