Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adv
Designating a time when something will become available, supposedly (but perhaps only optimistically) in the near future.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From the information technology community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor column in BYTE magazine.
