millenarian

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Recent Examples of millenarian One of her essential maneuvers is to treat politics—and in particular the millenarian views that once animated and then fractured her family—as an exhausted subject, an aspect of character rather than a topic in itself. — Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026 Her disappearance was later attributed to a millenarian cult. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 His ideas precipitated a tectonic crisis of political legitimacy and unleashed a series of continent-wide wars, sometimes featuring millenarian protocommunist sects like the Anabaptists, who sought to overthrow the social order. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026 Jerusalem has reason to greatly fear a millenarian regime with an eschatological worldview that has already demonstrated a willingness and ability to overwhelm Israeli air defenses and deliver warheads over its cities. — The Editors, National Review, 17 Apr. 2025 Many rebellions against China’s official rulers came from millenarian groups and religious cults that sprang up among the oppressed. — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023 The reality is that the global network has become a transmission mechanism for all kinds of manias and panics, just as the combination of printing and literacy temporarily increased the prevalence of millenarian sects and witch crazes. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for millenarian
Adjective
  • Molly Kinder saw the apocalyptic warnings about artificial intelligence while walking home from dropping her children off at elementary school.
    — Brittany Shammas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The one bit of apocalyptic grimness that does come through is the color scheme.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Not to toot my own horn, but that is looking downright prophetic four games into the 2026 season.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • In that sense, Chase’s article, written more than a year before September 11, 2001, has a certain prophetic ring to it.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

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“Millenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millenarian. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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