END-TIME Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

end-time

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as in Armageddon

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Recent Examples of end-time He was raised Presbyterian but exposed to a swirl of end-times ideas. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026 Here are the start and end-times for each portion of the upcoming free play period. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Trump says likewise—and brandishes variations of the QAnon end-time faith to invite his followers to imagine the most gruesome varieties of cosmic comeuppance on offer. — Matthew Avery Sutton, Washington Post, 7 May 2025 Lori and Chad Daybell adopted end-times religious beliefs and claimed they had been called to fulfill a divine mission. — Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for end-time

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The crime thriller has Gray having helmed a semi-fictionalized return to his family life in mid-1980s Queens and is also a companion piece to his 2022 film Armageddon Time.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up to avert Armageddon.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026

Definition of Armageddon

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The bell, sans artist, continues to mark the passage of time, ringing every hour over the pavilion and its guests, a grotesque altar to the ongoing Venetian apocalypse.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Kayla Cottingham’s This Delicious Death is a fresh, fun, sapphic entry into the zombie apocalypse catalog.

— Rebekah Faubion, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of apocalypse

Noun

By now, the superlatives used to describe AI are endless—both as a path to a new day, and as a path to doomsday.

— Kamau Bobb October 21, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Since April 2023, over 400 bodies have been exhumed from shallow graves believed to be linked to Mackenzie’s doomsday cult.

— Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of doomsday

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Spain’s second high-speed rail disaster this year, in which one train struck another from behind, killing 69 people, has raised fresh concerns about the safety of the country’s rail network ahead of a national election.

— Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
The new rail disaster can't help the prospects of his Socialist party.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of disaster

Noun

Without an authoritative accounting, Eisenkot argues, the country cannot fully reckon with the catastrophe.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Oct. 2026
Retreating Iraqi forces set fire to hundreds of oil wells in Kuwait creating an environmental catastrophe felt throughout the Gulf.

— Paula Hancocks, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of catastrophe

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