dooms 1 of 2

plural of doom
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dooms

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verb

present tense third-person singular of doom

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dooms
Noun
Sam Altman and Elon Musk have dooms above 10 and into the 20s. Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
This potentially dooms them to 48 hours in the nearest town. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025 Despite concerns that failure to be in the blue reading group in first grade dooms a child’s adult options to a career in coal mining (or worse, a lesser UC), both have been completely self-supporting (and not in the coal-mining industry) since graduating from college. Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dooms
Noun
  • What emerges from these rulings is a pattern.
    Aleksandra Bal, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The allegiance transfer rulings were last changed by the sport’s governing body in 2018, when the minimum three-year waiting period (to compete internationally) was introduced.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rodnyansky’s narrative is not focused on the events themselves but on the people, human destinies, and art.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The destinies of the three sisters, Josie, Emma, and Ara, explode off the page.
    Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Their immigration statuses — and fates — diverge in dramatic ways that make their connection complicated.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • If her best friend, Enid (Emma Myers), pleads with her to consider the fates of her fellow students before running off to play detective, Wednesday will certainly ignore her.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
    Book Marks August 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As part of the newsroom, all of Everett’s work and coverage decisions are overseen solely by Journal Sentinel editors.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • When inquiring about a networking organization, understanding the differences among the most prominent categories could further inform a business owner’s decisions.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The dad-of-two has spent the past decade covering the fortunes of Liverpool FC across the globe to give fans the inside track on the Reds from the dressing room to the boardroom.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Some have lost fortunes due to family drama and trauma, seen their homes go up in flames or watched their money disappear due to too much partying and lavish spending.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Michelle Kowalski, an analyst who has since departed the agency, was instructed to take one of the DOGE people, Cole Killian, through earnings data and historical records to analyze the cases of extremely old people whose deaths had not been recorded in Social Security data.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Among those fentanyl deaths were 20 young children — ages 4 and under — and seven of those babies and toddlers were from Jackson County.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The United States and South Korean militaries are holding annual joint exercises that North Korea condemns as a rehearsal for invasion.
    Stella Kim, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Instead of punishing banks for their predatory practices, Relay condemns soulless corporations for their malfeasance and corruption.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Dooms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dooms. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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