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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
Carlson is practically millenarian.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
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
The fundamentalist mind-set is apocalyptic and millenarian.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
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
Carlson is practically millenarian.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
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
The fundamentalist mind-set is apocalyptic and millenarian.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for millenarian
Adjective
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Spielberg deftly mixes in real-life post-9/11 anxiety to this end-of-the-world story to create something that feels legitimately apocalyptic.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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Villarreal: Inherent to this apocalyptic event is this idea of starting over, starting fresh and trying to correct some of the mistakes or errors of the past.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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Our bishops and the leaders of our denominations have a special responsibility to exercise prophetic leadership.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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But there were quieter, more beautiful paintings, too—filled with Orlik’s odd, occasionally prophetic imagination.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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“Millenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millenarian. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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