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
Derek Muller, an election law expert, suggests that scenario is little more than a fever dream of doomsday devotees and overly nervous Nellies.
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Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
That would get the doomsday Democrats and the messianic mullahs in Tehran talking.
—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
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Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
That would get the doomsday Democrats and the messianic mullahs in Tehran talking.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doomsday
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With Edgewater in the flood zone and Station 42 and Three Rock in disaster response mode, Bode (Max Thieriot) was on a side quest to make amends with Danny Marks (Mike O'Malley), a victim of Bode's criminal past.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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Through packing serious, scalable power into a mobile shipping container, VIVIFY is targeting remote industrial sites, disaster zones, forward military bases, and power-hungry data centers.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 May 2026
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That presentiment lies behind the many present expressions of apocalypse.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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This helped to set off the SaaS apocalypse.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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For much the same reason, developers, architects and builders are starting to stress proactively designing for climate catastrophe.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Local elections in England are usually low-stakes affairs, but this year’s results proved to be a catastrophe for the Labour Party.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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The film centers on Abdul Ahad Momand, who traveled to the Mir space station in 1988 as Afghanistan neared collapse – a moment of brief national hope that has since been largely scrubbed from public memory.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 May 2026
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Perhaps there is a collapse coming, the duo seems to say, as the ability of our systems to sustain themselves gets shakier.—
Dash Lewis,
Pitchfork,
22 May 2026
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The Paramount+ drama series follows a New York family that relocates to rural Montana after a family tragedy.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
21 May 2026
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That’s not to minimize the tragedies of the early 737 Max crashes, but to acknowledge that Boeing, airlines, and regulators took those events seriously and addressed the problems.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
20 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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Terra was sued by survivors of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside who claimed that vibrations from construction of his luxury Eighty-Seven Park tower next door contributed to the calamity.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
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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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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomsday. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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