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Recent Examples of apocalyptic Villarreal: Inherent to this apocalyptic event is this idea of starting over, starting fresh and trying to correct some of the mistakes or errors of the past. Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025 Curtis Everett in Snowpiercer (2014) Released just two years after the first Avengers, Bong Joon Ho's apocalyptic thriller Snowpiercer allowed Evans to show off his grittier side, playing a reluctant revolutionary named Curtis. Devan Coggan, EW.com, 13 June 2025 The 1978 book by William Luther Pierce – under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald – calls for a violent, apocalyptic race war to overthrow the U.S. government and exterminate Jews, nonwhite people and political enemies. Art Jipson, The Conversation, 11 June 2025 Though the Department of Homeland Security has recently said that border crossings are at an all-time low, Hutcherson’s diagnoses on the state of immigration are apocalyptic. Jessica Pishko, New Yorker, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for apocalyptic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apocalyptic
Adjective
  • Lowery remembered about shooting a climactic scene.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 July 2025
  • Trump said the climactic celebrations, on July 4th, 2026, will include a festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
    Jackie Northam, NPR, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is the first of a six-part series looking at figures who have played a pivotal role in a modern football success story.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 3 July 2025
  • Jota also notably became the first player in Wolves club history to score back-to-back European hat-tricks and was pivotal in their Europa League run.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • February 2025 Queen of Swords: February’s energy is pushing you to set clear boundaries and make decisive moves, especially in your financial or professional life this month.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
  • The decisive sequence started off with Martínez bearing down on Freese, his teammate at New York City FC, throwing him off with a wink before placing a cool kick as Freese dove the wrong way.
    Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • For this reader, roughly the same age as Sam Raymond, there is uncommon pleasure in the paradoxes of this climacteric tale.
    Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Macerating unripe climacteric fruit in sugar, however, isn’t a substitute for ripening them; that just takes time in your kitchen counter’s fruit basket.
    Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 8 May 2017
Adjective
  • With excitement growing over his pace and death-bowling abilities in the crucial latter stages of an innings — ramped up after a final-over hat-trick against Middlesex in the Twenty20 Blast — England fast-tracked him.
    Max Mathews, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • Carlen believes this opens a crucial frontier for interdisciplinary research, especially in cities like Los Angeles, where uneven geographies, biodiversity and political decisions intersect daily.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025

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“Apocalyptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apocalyptic. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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