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doomsday

noun

Definition of doomsdaynext
as in disaster
the day the world ends or is destroyed a warning that doomsday is near doomsday predictions

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Recent Examples of doomsday The episode marked the latest instance of Congress trying and failing to advance AI legislation amid a growing debate over whether, if at all, to regulate the technology that industry leaders warn may pose doomsday threats to humanity. — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2026 The list of potential risks and scenarios has garnered widespread attention, leaving everyday people to assess the doomsday predictions. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 But some are skeptical of the current doomsday outlook and think the reality is more nuanced. — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026 Some investors wrote off the growing chorus of concern around AI, saying the doomsday talk is a political tactic to encourage government regulation. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for doomsday
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doomsday
  1. disaster
  2. apocalypse
  3. catastrophe
  4. collapse
  5. tragedy
  6. Armageddon
  7. calamity
Noun
  • Los Angeles County officials aim to break ground on the new Eaton Canyon Nature Center before 2028, with plans to construct a facility that can withstand the region’s changing climate and future disasters.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The Challenger disaster was of course the 1986 explosion of NASA’s eponymous space shuttle shortly after launch, which left all seven crew members dead.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of disaster
Noun
  • His character in Resident Evil serves the opposite role of the normie who simply does not want to acknowledge the unfolding of an apocalypse around him.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Continue reading … Who quit his job and predicted an AI apocalypse?
    — , FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of apocalypse
Noun
  • Wrightwood residents are used to pulling together to face catastrophe.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Beginning after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and continuing to this day, smaller companies sprang up and took on big roles here, as national insurers pulled back rather than risk the financial catastrophe of another huge, damaging tropical system.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of catastrophe
Noun
  • The African Union estimated that conflict resulted in around 600,000 deaths from combat, famine and the collapse of healthcare.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Their battles for influence, image and desire, in a Spain on the brink of collapse, are observed and narrated with fierce irony by Francisco de Goya, an uneasy witness who turns palace intrigue into a surprisingly contemporary mirror.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of collapse
Noun
  • The Edmiston family looks forward to bringing accountability to those who exploited tragedy to divide and injure.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • But Pavese understood that the only lesson tragedy really teaches is that there is no end to suffering.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of tragedy
Noun
  • The crime thriller has Gray having helmed a semi-fictionalized return to his family life in mid-1980s Queens and is also a companion piece to his 2022 film Armageddon Time.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
  • Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up to avert Armageddon.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
Definition of Armageddon
Noun
  • But Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, doesn't think investors should fear another market calamity.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Analysts who spoke to ABC News disagreed sharply about the likelihood of such a calamity, however.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of calamity

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