Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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As heads to the Gulf Friday for his third oil-spill visit, his most ardent critics back in Washington will be stirring up trouble.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2010
Neither your aunt nor Miriam will be stirring by then.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
"There will be stirring times down here for the next few months," he wrote, "and you will find plenty to do, and fresh fields in which to win honor."
From The Courier of the Ozarks by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn
Few will be stirring at dawn, and of them the most will not be keen to notice men or things.
From Montezuma's Daughter by Henry Rider Haggard
A veteran of the angle will be stirring early; there is a brace of fish waiting for my hook on the other side of our lake.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
