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
That would get the doomsday Democrats and the messianic mullahs in Tehran talking.
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
The doomsday predictions are overblown, in my opinion, so please stop with the complaints about a lack of parking at a potential downtown Royals stadium.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
Bryson Bort, the founder of Scythe, a platform that helps industrial systems imagine potential cyberattacks, said that critical infrastructure is often cut off from the internet, making a true doomsday scenario unlikely.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
Behold the Great Conqueror, ushering in an era of prosperity when petty doomsday-minded advisers would stand in his way!
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
The doomsday predictions are overblown, in my opinion, so please stop with the complaints about a lack of parking at a potential downtown Royals stadium.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
Bryson Bort, the founder of Scythe, a platform that helps industrial systems imagine potential cyberattacks, said that critical infrastructure is often cut off from the internet, making a true doomsday scenario unlikely.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
Behold the Great Conqueror, ushering in an era of prosperity when petty doomsday-minded advisers would stand in his way!
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doomsday
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Boeing has reached confidential pre-trial settlements in most of the dozens of wrongful death lawsuits filed in connection with the Ethiopian Airlines disaster and a similar 737 Max crash five months earlier off the coast of Indonesia that together killed 346 people.—
Rio Yamat,
Fortune,
15 May 2026
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But the 48-year-old former San Francisco County supervisor’s solution — a single-payer-style public disaster insurance program — is poorly defined and presents an enormous risk for a state struggling with chronic deficits.—
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
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System apocalypse, dungeon core and subgenres galore LitRPG has international roots, according to Rhea Lyons, the director of content acquisition at Audible.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
9 May 2026
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Might the oligarchs of the world know — or be warned — in advance of a nuclear apocalypse?—
Rachel Lerman,
Washington Post,
9 May 2026
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The collapse of the government is unlikely to significantly affect Latvia’s foreign policy, as all mainstream parties are some variant of pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
15 May 2026
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This explains why companies did not experience a commercial-traffic collapse.—
Ming Zhu,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Those intentions prove to be relatively short-lived, as personal tragedy and political machinations eventually drove both men down their familiar old paths.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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One year after a fire at a religious hospice claimed the lives of 12 children, Mariel and Tino – a pair of documentary filmmakers – investigate the case of Gisela, the young volunteer who caused the tragedy and whom everyone believes to be dead.—
Roberto Prieto,
Variety,
13 May 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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Back in the late ’90s, the Federal Reserve (and everyone else) was sweating a potential Y2K calamity.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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All the sweeping expansiveness snaps shut with a sudden health crisis for Kristen, its onset signaled with masterful concision in a middle-of-the-night calamity that leaves her helpless.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomsday. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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