Definition of doomsday
1 : a day of final judgment
2 : a time of catastrophic destruction and death
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Examples of doomsday in a Sentence
a warning that doomsday is near
The book explores a doomsday scenario in which an asteroid hits the Earth.
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The current service disruption to Penn Station is minor compared to what some are calling a doomsday scenario: a shutdown of the North River tunnel.
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But for every doomsday scenario, there's a more measured take.
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If Mike Clevinger keeps this up, the doomsday rhymes can cease.
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Doomsday scenarios, end of the world movies—those once far-fetched storylines now can feel like where the world is actually headed.
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Upon its debut, the clock was set to seven minutes to midnight (on the Doomsday Clock, midnight signifies, well, doomsday: total catastrophe).
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Doomsday Scenario The threat to routes arises because the open-skies regime is governed by the European Court of Justice, Jacobs said, so that an entirely new EU-U.K. arrangement would need to negotiated.
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In February 2014, a state court jury found that Jefferson Parish's government acted negligently in using the doomsday plan, but that the government was not to blame for the flooding.
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The Tory marketing material that arrived in our home mainly warned of doomsday scenarios under a Labour leadership, in language that was suggestive of a hostile alien landing —
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First Known Use of doomsday
before 12th century
DOOMSDAY Defined for English Language Learners
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: the day the world ends or is destroyed
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: the day the world ends or is destroyed
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