Eminent, Imminent

  • Category: Write
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  • On January 12, 2021

I recently saw an email that talked about the eminent retirement of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The writer should have said imminent instead.

Eminent, used mainly to describe people, means famous and respected, whereas imminent means something is about to happen.

I mused that the writer could have referred to the imminent retirement of eminent Nancy Pelosi, but that’s another matter.

 

 

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