doomsday

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Recent Examples of doomsday As long as tech-firm valuations keep soaring into the stratosphere and investors keep getting rich, the incentives remain for Wall Street to bless the boom and ignore the doomsday scenarios. Rob Wile, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025 Aschbacher celebrated a recent rideshare agreement that will see ESA's Ramses spacecraft and Japan's Destiny+ mission launch together on a Japanese H3 rocket to study the former doomsday asteroid Apophis ahead of its 2029 close encounter with Earth. Andrew Jones, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025 This doomsday scenario is known as the Kessler syndrome, named after the American astrophysicist Donald Kessler, who in 1976 began circulating his first notices at NASA about possible runaway orbital debris. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025 Right now - from religion to climate change to doomsday prepping - there's a lot of talk about the end of the world. Brittany Luse, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for doomsday
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Noun
  • Because of its proximity to the stadium, Panoramic Hill is often first in line for disaster preparedness measures, including the thinning of brush and eucalyptus trees on the hill, Berkeley resident Kevin Casey said.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And why this all might be a financial and environmental disaster waiting to happen.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In 2011, in fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a zombie apocalypse preparedness guide that explained how readying oneself for a zombie apocalypse can prepare people for any large-scale disaster.
    Tom Duszynski, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But officials reported the collapse took down power lines and utility poles in the area caused power failure to surrounding homes and businesses.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One of them was there’s a real stadium collapse, a terrible story, that this was inspired by.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kirk's murder is a tragedy – as is any murder.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Here’s how a community dispute escalated into a deadly tragedy.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The atom bomb was the hot force which secularized Armageddon.
    Ed Simon August 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • And Talanoa Hufanga continued to fly around like a calamity let loose from Pandora's box, adding a key third-down pass-breakup on the Jets' final offensive drive.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In the wake of that calamity, the Sharks overhauled their defense corps and goaltending and brought in some new faces up front.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2025

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