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Recent Examples of end-time
Here are the start and end-times for each portion of the upcoming free play period.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Through a combination of luck, years of comedic development, and a coincidence of historical timing, Marc Maron has become a peak comedian of the end-times at a period of American life when the inescapable cultural background noise is apocalyptic doomsaying.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
Under Kale’s leadership, the church focused on the end-times, frequently reading from the Book of Revelation, former members say.
—Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
And waiting until doomsday had become a very real and timed concept for which scientists had wound a clock with its end-times alarm set to go off in minutes.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
In a scene out of biblical end-times, yellow jackets swarmed in the days after the storm — displaced after falling trees and floodwaters destroyed their nests.
—Kim Dinan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Despite the end-times detente between long-battling brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis that recently led to their announcement of a 2025 UK tour, some things in the music feud world never change.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2024
Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Through a combination of luck, years of comedic development, and a coincidence of historical timing, Marc Maron has become a peak comedian of the end-times at a period of American life when the inescapable cultural background noise is apocalyptic doomsaying.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
Under Kale’s leadership, the church focused on the end-times, frequently reading from the Book of Revelation, former members say.
—Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
And waiting until doomsday had become a very real and timed concept for which scientists had wound a clock with its end-times alarm set to go off in minutes.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
In a scene out of biblical end-times, yellow jackets swarmed in the days after the storm — displaced after falling trees and floodwaters destroyed their nests.
—Kim Dinan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Despite the end-times detente between long-battling brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis that recently led to their announcement of a 2025 UK tour, some things in the music feud world never change.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for end-time
Noun
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The fear lingers because black holes are spooky and the machine is enormous, but the science and the decade-plus of safe running don’t support doomsday.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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New Mexico officials say the agreements allow water conservation decisions to be made locally while avoiding a doomsday scenario of billion-dollar payouts on water shortfalls.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Does this make Musk’s dreams of human transformation and societal apocalypse more likely to become reality?—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Dead Don't Die In Jim Jarmusch's absurdist apocalypse comedy, flesh-craving zombies raid the once-tranquil town of Centerville, picking off its residents one by one.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Going to the theatre in that period was hardly an entertainment for the fainthearted, and calamity was not confined to the stage.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Levine Cava bristled, saying the only money left to fund the choppers would be the county’s emergency fund — dollars reserved for hurricanes or other calamities.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Bureau staff were told the group itself, already gutted as part of mass layoffs at the State Department in July, would refocus on migration diplomacy and disaster response rather than its traditional refugee focus.—
Ted Hesson,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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That question frames an episode that opens not with battle, but with the kind of stillness that comes before disaster.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end-time. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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