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I have trouble imagining a sentence where a speaker would truly have difficulty disambiguating the two senses. People rarely have trouble disambiguating even incredibly homophonous words like set, run, or bank.


I have trouble imagining such sentence where a speaker wouldn't think it's about banking. "Futures" plural referring to time is something I've only seen in incredibly nerdy phrases, like "set of all possible futures".




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