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in the cards
adjective as in cut-and-dried
adjective as in destined
Strong matches
adjective as in doomed
Strong matches
adjective as in eventual
adjective as in forthcoming
adjective as in future
Strong matches
adjective as in imminent
adjective as in impending
adjective as in likely
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- achievable
- anticipated
- assuring
- attainable
- believeable
- conceivable
- conjecturable
- credible
- destined
- disposed
- favorite
- given to
- imaginable
- in favor of
- in the habit of
- inferable
- liable
- odds-on
- on the verge of
- ostensible
- plausible
- practicable
- predisposed
- presumable
- promising
- rational
- seeming
- subject to
- supposable
- tending
- thinkable
- true
- up-and-coming
- verisimilar
- workable
adjective as in probable
noun as in chance
Strong matches
noun as in luck
noun as in luckiness
noun as in prospect
verb as in expect
Strong matches
verb as in forecast
Example Sentences
Intrepid New York Times Gitmo reporter Carol Rosenberg recently summed up the costs associated with those signs of a continuing belief that actual trial proceedings were indeed in the cards this way: “The war court proceedings have cost hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries, infrastructure and transportation. Since 2019, the Office of Military Commissions has added two new courtroom chambers, new offices and temporary housing, more lawyers, more security personnel and more contractors.”
As it turns out, it wasn’t in the cards for either actress, which is a tough blow for Anderson considering the momentum behind her stirring onscreen comeback.
“But it’s clear, based on where the politics are in D.C., that it’s not in the cards.”
A cast nomination wasn’t in the cards because “The Brutalist” really isn’t an ensemble film.
Boettcher hasn’t decided whether working a double shift is in the cards, instead focusing on the most important football postseason of his career.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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