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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 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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Yang went so far as to urge anyone in mid-career management, particularly those who own homes in the affluent burbs of Silicon Valley or Westchester County, New York to put there house up for sale now, to avoid the mad scramble once the labor apocalypse hits.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
19 Feb. 2026
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Shawn, famous for his moral compass, diagnoses the world on a lucky/unlucky axis, and imagines the upside of apocalypse.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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But the doomsday scenario is the 1994 strike, which began in August of that season and resulted in the cancellation of the remaining regular season and entire postseason.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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But rather than emphasize the opportunity waiting to be seized, Shumer wraps his message in doomsday-packaging that drains the innovative and optimistic energy that should characterize this moment.—
Neil Chilson,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Last year’s Frieze LA was held in the shadow of the calamity, just six weeks on.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
25 Feb. 2026
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His exile finally ended in November—just in time for a second crypto calamity in the form of FTX’s collapse.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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While the Supreme Court’s majority opinion did not explicitly outline a repayment protocol, dissenting Justice Brett Kavanaugh highlighted the looming administrative disaster.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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The latter possibility, however, could give rise to enough disaster and famine to fully destabilize human civilization.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Feb. 2026
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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end-time. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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