END-TIMES Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

end-times

noun

plural of end-time

as in apocalypses

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Noun

Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the surrealist musical follows one nuclear family across thousands of years and three apocalypses.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.

— JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025

Definition of apocalypses

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To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Indeed, conflict and calamities are major factors in financial repression.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of calamities

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Molly saved herself in the showstopper with a gorgeous pink-and-orange cake that has the consistency of a fuzzy sweater, and there was nothing Shannon could have done that would have been worse than Danni’s two disasters.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Los Angeles County officials aim to break ground on the new Eaton Canyon Nature Center before 2028, with plans to construct a facility that can withstand the region’s changing climate and future disasters.

— Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of disasters

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Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Syria became one of the great human catastrophes of our time.

— Ayman M. Mohyeldin, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026

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