Words similar to afoot

Example sentences for: afoot

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It said plans were afoot for the queen to visit Dublin early next year to cement the new relationship between Britain and Ireland.
To Mr. Gottlieb's gimlet eye, however, there is mischief afoot.
I believe it was the transformation of Maria Bartiromo into a household name that told me that something new was really afoot.
There is a great deal of effort afoot to make Java faster (just-in-time compilation, native-code generation, etc.).
Seeing links not only with al Qaeda but specifically with the 1998 embassy bombings, a CIA desk officer guessed that "something more nefarious [was] afoot."