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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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While the ice apocalypse has wrapped up, dangerously cold air still has a grip on Texas.—
Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Jan. 2026
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Created in 1947, the Doomsday Clock was created to convey threats to humanity and the Earth using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero).—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Each sportsbook has different doomsday scenarios.—
Doug Kezirian,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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The number of doomsday weapons and the number of countries wielding them threatens to grow.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Starting in the 2026-27 school year, Oklahoma public schools will be limited to two days, or 12 hours, of virtual learning for calamity closures, including severe weather, per Senate Bill 758 authored by Senate Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, and Senator Kristen Thompson, R-Edmond.—
Isa Almeida,
Oklahoman,
3 Feb. 2026
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Here’s where naming a Wall Street pro who’s a master of spotting where danger’s building may prove a hedge against a future calamity.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The club would mark the anniversary before the game closest to the disaster.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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The two were at odds over the press conferences that were held to update the public on the disaster and on efforts to reopen the burn area to traffic.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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