Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Sailing from Busan New Port, the container ship -- the "PanStar Acro" -- will sail to Europe via the Arctic, testing whether a route opened by melting sea ice can be commercially viable.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
NASA’s Dragonfly mission will sail for Titan as soon as 2028, and the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft arrives in the Jupiter system in 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
“PSKY has repeatedly mischaracterized the regulatory review process by suggesting its proposal will sail through, misleading WBD stockholders about the real risk of their regulatory challenges around the world,” Netflix said in its statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
Backers of the motion are confident that it will sail through, especially as they can now also rely on the votes of Odinga's party.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
Often you will be plodding through the sanctuary of woods when suddenly a car will sail past through the trees only forty or fifty feet away—a perennially startling sight.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
