as in apocalypses
a final destructive battle or conflict
trying to avoid the threat of a nuclear Armageddon
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Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the surrealist musical follows one nuclear family across thousands of years and three apocalypses.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025 -
And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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With Harry, a personal spiral is only one case away, and as the series begins, there are several percolating catastrophes that might be ready to dovetail in self-destruction.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Mar. 2026
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Not everyone can be Francis Ford Coppola, funding his own feverish catastrophes by selling off one of his vineyards.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2026
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The country observed three days of national mourning for one of the worst air disasters recorded in recent memory.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The importance of speed Among the many lessons drawn from these disasters was that speed is the coin of the realm.—
Sheena Samu,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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