as in disaster
a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction
the fear that the next global pandemic could be an apocalypse of biblical proportions
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Recent Examples of apocalypse
First contact set on a future Earth trying to recover from a climate apocalypse.
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Brianne Kane,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
The latest camper from Mammoth Overland takes two of the brand's most creative launches of the recent past and fuses them together into a prepper-grade wilderness and apocalypse survival safe room built for immediate escape.
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New Atlas,
9 June 2026
Some might make the case that 2005’s brawny alien apocalypse action thriller War of the Worlds fits the bill.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2026
The group eventually purchased a compound in Lure, North Carolina and believed that they would be rescued from the coming apocalypse by UFOs.
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Emma Banks,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for apocalypse
Brianne Kane,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
The latest camper from Mammoth Overland takes two of the brand's most creative launches of the recent past and fuses them together into a prepper-grade wilderness and apocalypse survival safe room built for immediate escape.
—
New Atlas,
9 June 2026
Some might make the case that 2005’s brawny alien apocalypse action thriller War of the Worlds fits the bill.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2026
The group eventually purchased a compound in Lure, North Carolina and believed that they would be rescued from the coming apocalypse by UFOs.
—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for apocalypse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apocalypse
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Given the scale of the disaster, specialized teams from the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, and other countries began mobilizing toward Venezuela in coordination with local authorities and the United Nations.
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It was declared a disaster zone and militarized on Thursday.
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.
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Chile introduced a tax deduction for catastrophe insurance premiums and resilience retrofit investment.
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First a human scores a model’s outputs — say, how likely a character in a drama would be to react to news of a tragedy with a host of jokes or expressions of sympathy — going back with one score after another to various responses.
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The parents of the teen killed in the horse carriage crash in Central Park are remembering their son as rides resume a week after the tragedy.
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To grade the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their relative natural disaster risks, five measures were developed that account for the frequency and damage of calamities, weighted against population and geographic size.
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The calamity is the deadliest crash involving a B-52 bomber since 1982.
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“Apocalypse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apocalypse. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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