firm
adjective
not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid.
will firm
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future tenseof firm.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Proponents of the measure characterize the effort as procedural: It will firm up timelines, but projects still will be reviewed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky will firm up an offer of £5bn, including assumed debts, for the company which employs more than 150,000 people.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
Lucy’s flyby of Dinkinesh will firm up scientists’ preliminary estimates of the asteroid’s basic shape and composition and will also allow them to count craters on its surface to better calibrate its age.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2023
At the end of mixing, the dough will be very soft, but will firm back up during bulk fermentation.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2022
If, in unswerving trust, he keeps his will firm for God, knit up with the perfect human will of our Lord, he knows there are no contingencies in the warfare he is waging.
From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Shirley C. Hughson
