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Example sentences for: afoot

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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."
Now there's a move afoot in Congress to end the program, which the paper reports, might well mean a lot of female subcontractors will go bankrupt.
However, plans are afoot to knock down and rebuild part of the area and restore some of the square’s former vitality.
Plans are afoot to build hotels all along the 22 km (14 miles) of shell-shaped beaches on Cayo Coco, but accommodations are currently limited.
There is a great deal of effort afoot to make Java faster (just-in-time compilation, native-code generation, etc.).