Definition of DOOMSDAY

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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This year’s test was the toughest to date, laying out a doomsday scenario of double-digit unemployment, cratering home and stock prices, and soaring losses on credit cards and car loans. — Lalita Clozel, WSJ, "Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dinged in Fed Stress Tests," 28 June 2018 In this doomsday scenario even when planets switched to renewable fuels to save themselves from extinction, the damage done was sometimes so bad it could not be reversed. — Fox News, "The three possible ways human civilization could end revealed," 1 June 2018 While ballots are still being counted, such doomsday predictions did not appear to come to pass. — Adam Shaw, Fox News, "Dems’ path to House takeover narrows: Party trails in Calif. races, as NY seat comes into play," 7 June 2018 The premise is logical and chilling, seeming only a few short steps away from today’s reality, her doomsday scenario requiring only the slightest suspension of disbelief. — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, "Science fiction and fantasy books: ‘Belly Up,’ ‘What Should Be Wild,’ ‘84K’," 7 June 2018 The election happened midway through shooting, and the show aired so early on in the presidency that Season 1 still played for me as a kind of hypothetical doomsday scenario. — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, "Max Minghella Talks Playing the Only Good Man in Gilead on The Handmaid's Tale," 5 July 2018 Finally, there's the staggeringly expensive prospect of buying out the low-lying homes to turn the area into a conservation park — the doomsday option no one particularly likes to contemplate. — Alex Harris And Joey Flechas, miamiherald, "This Miami street could be the blueprint for how the city handles sea level rise," 28 June 2018 Trade groups have also created doomsday videos on ePrivacy. — New York Times, "The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law," 27 May 2018 For the Democratic and Republican parties, the good news out of the California primary election was similar: The doomsday scenario did not come to pass. — latimes.com, "Today: R-E-S-P-E-C-T?," 7 June 2018

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