often attributive
1
: a day of final judgment
2
: a time of catastrophic destruction and death
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 painting conjures a roiling ocean, as though Whitten—who later became a scuba diver, and enjoyed hunting octopuses—were envisioning a doomsday resurrection of the Middle Passage dead.
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Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
Met by some with cautious optimism, others with trepidation, and others with doomsday predictions, there is no doubt that AI is here to stay and changing work in ways yet to be fully revealed.
—Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Those 1950s newspaper comic strips and subsequent graphic novel collections are practically a national treasure in Argentina, and the list of filmmakers trying to deliver its doomsday sci-fi story in other mediums was long and impressive.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 May 2025
For within weeks of the book’s publication, Hopkins and two other researchers confounded mathematicians by announcing that Snaith’s warning to readers had been all too apt: The doomsday hypothesis was true.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2025
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Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
Met by some with cautious optimism, others with trepidation, and others with doomsday predictions, there is no doubt that AI is here to stay and changing work in ways yet to be fully revealed.
—Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Those 1950s newspaper comic strips and subsequent graphic novel collections are practically a national treasure in Argentina, and the list of filmmakers trying to deliver its doomsday sci-fi story in other mediums was long and impressive.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 May 2025
For within weeks of the book’s publication, Hopkins and two other researchers confounded mathematicians by announcing that Snaith’s warning to readers had been all too apt: The doomsday hypothesis was true.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for doomsday
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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomsday. Accessed 22 Jun. 2025.
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