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
This is not a future climate doomsday scenario.
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Daniela Flores,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2026
In a different world, those who pushed these doomsday scenarios would face professional consequences.
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Editorial,
Boston Herald,
29 May 2026
For now, oil futures haven’t reached doomsday levels.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
With the turn of the millennium soon coming, the church builds a following with the story of a doomsday apocalypse that only the faithful will be saved from.
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Kayti Burt,
Time,
15 May 2026
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Daniela Flores,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2026
In a different world, those who pushed these doomsday scenarios would face professional consequences.
—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
29 May 2026
For now, oil futures haven’t reached doomsday levels.
—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
With the turn of the millennium soon coming, the church builds a following with the story of a doomsday apocalypse that only the faithful will be saved from.
—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doomsday
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Aemond is a murderer, Aegon is a rapist; if either of them ends up on the Iron Throne for good, that would be a disaster.
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On the dusty backroads of Radiator Springs, where Lightning McQueen and his pals live, a shower of meteors threatened to bring destruction upon the quarter-size cars in a scene that disaster movie king Roland Emmerich would endorse.
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And just when things could not look rosier, the SaaS apocalypse occurred.
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Not for the faint of heart, California’s Salton Sea conjures a sense of apocalypse.
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.
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Chile introduced a tax deduction for catastrophe insurance premiums and resilience retrofit investment.
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Such lifting of sanctions all but guarantees that the Iranian regime will be bolstered mere months after protests brought it to the brink of collapse.
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Firefighters confirmed that the building sustained severe structural damage but ruled out the possibility of a complete collapse.
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First a human scores a model’s outputs — say, how likely a character in a drama would be to react to news of a tragedy with a host of jokes or expressions of sympathy — going back with one score after another to various responses.
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The parents of the teen killed in the horse carriage crash in Central Park are remembering their son as rides resume a week after the tragedy.
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The atom bomb was the hot force which secularized Armageddon.
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Entire ecosystems of expertise had blossomed in academia and government to model the scenarios that might lead to Armageddon, and the resulting game theory, though sophisticated, was relatively straightforward.
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To grade the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their relative natural disaster risks, five measures were developed that account for the frequency and damage of calamities, weighted against population and geographic size.
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The calamity is the deadliest crash involving a B-52 bomber since 1982.
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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomsday. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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