as in apocalypse
a final destructive battle or conflict
trying to avoid the threat of a nuclear Armageddon
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Recent Examples of Armageddon
President Erika Sloane, however, convinces Ethan to return to stop a self-aware artificial intelligence program called The Entity before the AI takes control of all the world’s nuclear arsenals and causes nuclear Armageddon.
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
The arms race played out through the 1960s, building stockpiles of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles on both sides until its folly, and frightening close brushes with Armageddon, lowered those numbers in an era of détente, the sort of world that Bethe had called for in his article.
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Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2025
There's plenty more to come throughout the month, including on August 17, which sees the arrival of James Gray's 2022 film, Armageddon Time, starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins.
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Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
Twenty-seven years ago, Armageddon benefited from a marketing campaign that left a lasting impression.
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Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
25 July 2025
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
The arms race played out through the 1960s, building stockpiles of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles on both sides until its folly, and frightening close brushes with Armageddon, lowered those numbers in an era of détente, the sort of world that Bethe had called for in his article.
—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2025
There's plenty more to come throughout the month, including on August 17, which sees the arrival of James Gray's 2022 film, Armageddon Time, starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins.
—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
Twenty-seven years ago, Armageddon benefited from a marketing campaign that left a lasting impression.
—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Armageddon
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The same year, another, longer-running TV version focused on the story of survivors after an alien apocalypse that had wiped out most of the Earth's population.
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Closing the Manhattan Bridge, diverting traffic, and managing the safety of staging a zombie apocalypse downtown required the cooperation and manpower of multiple agencies with their own sets of pressing priorities and responsibilities.
Noun
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In the work of fiction, the ship is taken over to prevent catastrophe.
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The young girls are referred to as Heaven’s 27 by their surviving families, who are determined to honor their legacy by ensuring such a catastrophe never happens again.
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Rodríguez said numerous public officials died in the disaster, including security personnel, municipal employees and military officers.
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The Boyle Heights blaze, similar to the Eaton and Palisades fires, has revealed the region’s air monitoring can’t always tell people what they’ve been exposed to in a disaster.
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