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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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Netflix 'The Life of Chuck' Based on the Stephen King novella, director Mike Flanagan's supremely joyous character study – the best movie of 2025 – involves an apocalypse, multiple dance extravaganzas and a haunted attic.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
9 Jan. 2026
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That goal is seemingly the only hope for humanity against the decay of everything around them and the increasingly violent nature of many remaining humans (think early Mad Max apocalypse sensibility).—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The number of doomsday weapons and the number of countries wielding them threatens to grow.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Gold is a classic doomsday asset.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The present-day Red Sox are on the other side of that rebuild, and have no legs on which to stand in this entirely avoidable calamity of losing both Devers and Bregman.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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We are told that only about 40% of the housing units are now occupied and seldom does a week or so go by without some housing calamity taking place.—
Jerry Shnay,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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More than a year after the disaster, which killed all but two people on board, much is still unclear about why the passenger jet crash landed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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The councilwoman emphasized that every neighborhood in Los Angeles is just one disaster from devastation.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
10 Jan. 2026
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