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Recent Examples of millenarian
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.
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The Editors, National Review, 17 Apr. 2025
There is a millenarian energy in the air, a wild hope for change that veers easily into the fear of civil war.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
These fantastic millenarian goals motivate Netanyahu’s most extreme allies, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, in their fervent desire to see Trump elected.
—Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
The latter — driven by an apocalyptic, millenarian creed — had embarked on a frenzy of killing, torture, grisly execution and abductions of civilians from communities of supposed apostates and enemies.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
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
America, in his presidency, was an assertive participant in the world—beating back communist encroachment in Latin America and calling the Soviets’ bluff in the Cold War arms race—but without George W. Bush’s millenarian overreach.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
Carlson is practically millenarian.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
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
The Editors, National Review, 17 Apr. 2025
There is a millenarian energy in the air, a wild hope for change that veers easily into the fear of civil war.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
These fantastic millenarian goals motivate Netanyahu’s most extreme allies, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, in their fervent desire to see Trump elected.
—Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
The latter — driven by an apocalyptic, millenarian creed — had embarked on a frenzy of killing, torture, grisly execution and abductions of civilians from communities of supposed apostates and enemies.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
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
America, in his presidency, was an assertive participant in the world—beating back communist encroachment in Latin America and calling the Soviets’ bluff in the Cold War arms race—but without George W. Bush’s millenarian overreach.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
Carlson is practically millenarian.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
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
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This may leave countries to do more in terms of adaption to the changing climate whether or not the shift reaches the most apocalyptic forecasts of climate campaigners.—
Matthew Tostevin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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The name, borrowed from the post-apocalyptic movie series, immediately drew attention for its bold tone.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But the way the storyline wraps ups — with one of the three billionaires, Logan Lerman’s Jay, deciding to step up and own his role in the season’s shady dealings, therefore taking himself down alongside his other culprits — was certainly some wishful thinking that could, one day, prove prophetic.—
Josh Wigler,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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That theme, along with the figure of a prophetic character, felt especially powerful in a Latin American context.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Millenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millenarian. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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