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
Noun
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The town had hired consultants to study the feasibility of a complex dike system, hopefully to save it from the next flood disaster.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
12 Dec. 2025
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Communities with limited housing options before disasters become even more constrained afterward.—
Ivis Garcia,
Fortune,
10 Dec. 2025
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Could a jobs apocalypse be coming?—
Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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The latest camper from Mammoth Overland takes two of the brand's most creative launches of the recent past and fuses them together into a prepper-grade wilderness and apocalypse survival safe room built for immediate escape.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 June 2026
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Les Olympiens reaffirmed their title credentials by responding with three straight wins, only to repeat their late home collapse against Toulouse before falling at Lille courtesy of an early Ethan Mbappe strike last Friday.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
12 Dec. 2025
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With their predators gone, purple urchin populations exploded beginning around 2014 and have remained one of the key drivers of ongoing kelp collapse.—
Chaewon Chung
December 11,
Sacbee.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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All this while presiding over the largest outbreak of measles in the US in more than two decades, which by June 2025 had killed three people in a wholly vaccine-preventable tragedy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Formed by Duane and Gregg Allman in the late 1960s, the Allman Brothers Band became one of the most influential and popular American rock bands despite personal turmoil and tragedy.—
DeAsia Paige,
AJC.com,
10 June 2026
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The arms race played out through the 1960s, building stockpiles of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles on both sides until its folly, and frightening close brushes with Armageddon, lowered those numbers in an era of détente, the sort of world that Bethe had called for in his article.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2025
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There's plenty more to come throughout the month, including on August 17, which sees the arrival of James Gray's 2022 film, Armageddon Time, starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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Even when calamities are more intimate, such as being unemployed for a long period of time, there is a higher risk of smoking, likely due to the anxiety.—
Julia Craven,
Allure,
9 June 2026
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Baltimore held a 4-2 lead with two outs after the Clement calamity.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomsday. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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