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doomsdays

noun

plural of doomsday

as in disasters

the day the world ends or is destroyed a warning that doomsday is near doomsday predictions

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Noun

Getting an accurate count of immigrants of various statuses is useful when assigning resources for public health emergencies or natural or human-made disasters.

— Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The chapter also examines military disasters caused not by geography but by failures of leadership, organization, discipline, and judgment.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of disasters

Noun

Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the surrealist musical follows one nuclear family across thousands of years and three apocalypses.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
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

Definition of apocalypses

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Most workplace tragedies, sadly, never get that attention, even though more than 5,000 people die from accidents at work every year.

— Matt Helmer, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2026
Find positive, proactive ways that can prevent these kinds of tragedies from ever happening again.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of tragedies

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Reacher stumbles out into the street and collapses, sheets of rain washing the blood from his mighty frame.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
An inquiry into baby deaths at England’s Countess of Chester Hospital finds ‘complete failure at all levels,’ saying staff missed chances to save infants as collapses mounted.

— Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of collapses

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To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Indeed, conflict and calamities are major factors in financial repression.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

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