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You sacrifice everything to the future, and the future is all mirage--all mirage.

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  1. noun The indefinite time yet to come: will try to do better in the future.
  2. noun Something that will happen in time to come: "The future comes apace” (Shakespeare).
  3. noun A prospective or expected condition, especially one considered with regard to growth, advancement, or development: a business with no future.
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  • The Sagramanda of the future is an enormous and enormously overpopulated city of some hundred million people in a relatively near-future India—not an actual Indian city of today extrapolated into the future, but a made-up city, a kind of composite, say, of Calcutta, Mumbai, and Bangalore juiced up with high tech methedrene and the results of an ongoing population explosion. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • You sacrifice everything to the future, and the future is all mirage--all mirage. —  The Top of the World
  • Sounds like an amazing invention from the future, but the future is here and now so you're in luck. —  All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content
  • Looks like the future is the San Jose A's. —  Field of Schemes
  • This option that will put money away for the future is an Individual Retirement Account or an IRA. —  Chicago Defender
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  1. Middle English, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, about to be; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English future, from Old French futur, French futur = Provencal futur = Spanish Portuguese Italian futuro, from Latin futurus, about to be, future participle associated with esse, be, sum, I am, from √ *fu, be, found also in perfect fui, I was, fuisse, have been, etc., = English be: see be.
 

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