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futures
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"goods sold on agreement for future delivery," 1880, from future (n.) in a financial sense "speculative purchase or sale of stock or other commodities for future delivery."
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Etymology 1 n. (plural of future English) Etymology 2 n. futures contract
Usage examples of futures.
These are stories of those possible futures where destiny becomes reality.
Slowly, one by one, he had mastered his fears, his body’s demands, learning to seek out among the bewildering fan-shaped futures the one least harmful.
In at least one of the futures diverging now from his every word, Stephen Hastur, Lord Elhalyn, younger brother of Regis II, who sat on the throne of Thendara, lay here on the stone floor, his neck broken.
A thousand alternate futures spun out before him: in one he seized the girl in his hands and wrung her neck like the animal he knew her to be.
Again conflicting futures, conflicting possibilities and obligations crowded into his mind with images of lust fighting for place with other futures in which he saw her lying dead in his arms.
Again the crowding futures and possibilities threatened to overwhelm him, so that he could see himself ignoring his scruples, taking her into his arms with all the pent-up passion of his life.
Yet we may still choose among the futures I can see, if you are willing.
For a moment, so poignant were the images roused by her words, it seemed that all other futures had really been wiped out.
I see not the true future alone, but a dozen futures, any one of which may come true, or mock me by never coming to pass.
He must deal with whatever came, and look ahead only when he had some reasonable chance of deciding which of the possible futures could be rationally affected by some choice actually within his own power to control.
He had resigned himself, told himself that if he never saw Cassandra again, at least they avoided the grimmest of the futures he had seen.
Now somehow I must manage to master it, to thread my way and see through time, to discover what will happen among the many futures I see.
No doubt Donal’s words had roused fear of one of those remotely possible futures which would probably never come to pass.
This meant, in practice, that its planning dealt with futures near at hand.
Every society faces not merely a succession of probable futures, but an array of possible futures, and a conflict over preferable futures.