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
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.
—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
First, their ancestors had to survive the dinosaurs’ doomsday, which was no small feat.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
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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
First, their ancestors had to survive the dinosaurs’ doomsday, which was no small feat.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 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.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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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.—
Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
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Could a jobs apocalypse be coming?—
Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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First contact set on a future Earth trying to recover from a climate apocalypse.—
Brianne Kane,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
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Horrible things happen all the time, crises and catastrophes that defy language and imagination.—
Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
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But if your concerned friend starts worrying about AI data centers literally causing a worldwide water catastrophe, the actual numbers involved should hopefully put those worries to rest.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
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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.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
19 June 2026
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Firefighters confirmed that the building sustained severe structural damage but ruled out the possibility of a complete collapse.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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Netflix also has a pair of strong four-hour adaptations in the harrowing Lord of the Flies and the darkly comic political tragedy of Death by Lightning.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
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Since these leaks are invisible and odorless, a portable carbon monoxide detector is the only way to prevent a tragedy.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
17 June 2026
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The atom bomb was the hot force which secularized Armageddon.—
Ed Simon
August 18,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Andreas Kluth,
Twin Cities,
17 Aug. 2025
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The calamity is the deadliest crash involving a B-52 bomber since 1982.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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In early times, most humans barely paid attention to weather calamities because the region was so sparsely populated.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomsday. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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