Words similar to afoot

Example sentences for: afoot

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However, plans are afoot to knock down and rebuild part of the area and restore some of the square’s former vitality.
(Scroll down to the bottom of " Deep Throat: The Game Is Afoot" to see Nixon's outrage on discovering that Mark Felt, a high-ranking FBI official believed by both Nixon and Chatterbox to have been Deep Throat, is Jewish.)
Though intelligence gave no clear indication of what might be afoot, some intelligence reports mentioned chemical weapons, pointing toward work at a camp in southern Afghanistan called Derunta.
(See " Deep Throat: The Game Is Afoot"; " Another Bulletin From the Deep Throat Desk"; " Deep Throat Revealed (One Last Time)"; and " Deep Throat Revealed (Again).")
There is a great deal of effort afoot to make Java faster (just-in-time compilation, native-code generation, etc.).