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
With California's open primary system, the top two vote-getters on June 2 advance to November's general election, regardless of party affiliation, setting up a potential, yet unlikely, doomsday scenario for Democrats if their party were split among several candidates.
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Austin Turner, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
The loan will help sustain Caltrain, Muni, AC Transit, and BART as state leaders pursue long-term funding through a potential November sales tax measure that could stave off a transit doomsday scenario of station closures and service cutbacks.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
The steep declines this week showed just how on edge investors are regarding AI — even when the news is good, or when doomsday scenarios are completely made out of thin air.
—Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026
Mass layoffs fuel fear of AI Armageddon A doomsday report from Citrini Research warns artificial intelligence tools may lead to a sharp rise in unemployment.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
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Austin Turner, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
The loan will help sustain Caltrain, Muni, AC Transit, and BART as state leaders pursue long-term funding through a potential November sales tax measure that could stave off a transit doomsday scenario of station closures and service cutbacks.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
The steep declines this week showed just how on edge investors are regarding AI — even when the news is good, or when doomsday scenarios are completely made out of thin air.
—Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026
Mass layoffs fuel fear of AI Armageddon A doomsday report from Citrini Research warns artificial intelligence tools may lead to a sharp rise in unemployment.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doomsday
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Such lack of vision — or ample self-delusion — propelled Americans to disaster in Iraq, even with some competent advisers in the White House.—
Trudy Rubin,
Twin Cities,
6 Mar. 2026
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Leaving Polis off the guest list of a recent governors’ dinner at the White House was the latest slap in the face of many that include rescinded federal grants, a vetoed water bill, rejected disaster fund requests, and the loss of two federal agencies.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
6 Mar. 2026
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As friendships between lonely men so often do, Gary and Ennis start to game out what their plans would be if there ever were a zombie apocalypse.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2026
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Khosla warned the impending AI jobs apocalypse will upend the economy by the end of the decade, and tech could soon replace some 80% of jobs, including some of the roles that have traditionally been associated with years of training or education.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Shortly after the collapse of Hussein’s ruling party, crowds looted government offices and cultural sites.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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John’s insistence on using the George office for anything but actual work related to the magazine, which is perennially on the verge of collapse, is going to give Berman a heart attack.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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In 2021, 12-year-old Molly Steinsapir died after losing control of an e-bike on a steep hill in Pacific Palisades, a tragedy that led her parents to sue the manufacturer and brought new scrutiny to how e-bike companies market their products to families with children.—
Cierra Morgan
March 4,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Though the other children recovered, Nicholas died several days later, a tragedy Dominici said will shape the rest of her life.—
Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 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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Up until the two hundred and fiftieth, which, save a miracle, is going to break all earlier records for dismal misadventure, regrettable calamity, and shocking violence, no fifty-year anniversary of the founding was more turbulent than the Bicentennial.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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However, Zilisch came roaring back, reached as high as fifth place, before taken out by calamity late.—
Kevin Lyttle,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomsday. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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