Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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“I understand why some people downtown will duck into an alleyway,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2020
Till then, I will duck into the past, into the black and white, where the good in us, played by Lionel Barrymore, stares up at the leering gangster, Edward G. Robinson, unafraid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2020
Then Morris will duck back inside the stadium, head to the visitor’s locker room and change into his No. 46 jersey with a Dallas Cowboys star on each shoulder.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2016
"We're going to get a cultural divide here pretty quickly," says Greg Strimple, a Republican pollster based in Boise, Idaho, who predicts Obama will duck the issue as long as possible.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2013
And all these bright spirits will duck underground at eleven o'clock this morning, for at twelve o'clock the police propose to enter on the scene.
From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
