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
His last appearance at the Bowl in 2023 with Armageddon earned him a Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing single stand-up performance — so, no pressure.
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Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
In his new book, The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon, leading nuclear security analyst Ankit Panda introduces readers to a new era that began in roughly the mid-2020s.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 27 May 2025
The urgency and stakes of this real-time Armageddon could not be higher for the profession, clients, society at large, US/global democracy, the US/global economy, and the post-World War II global order.
—Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Ben Affleck can’t believe Armageddon is in the Criterion Collection either.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
In his new book, The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon, leading nuclear security analyst Ankit Panda introduces readers to a new era that began in roughly the mid-2020s.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 27 May 2025
The urgency and stakes of this real-time Armageddon could not be higher for the profession, clients, society at large, US/global democracy, the US/global economy, and the post-World War II global order.
—Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Ben Affleck can’t believe Armageddon is in the Criterion Collection either.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Armageddon
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Now almost all of them are missing their crowns, a beech apocalypse.—
Robert Sullivan,
Curbed,
9 June 2025
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Shopping and Consumer Behavior The retail apocalypse?—
Charell G. Coleman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Similarly, the market-resilience work performed by a lab at the University of California, Davis, offers solutions to farmers and agricultural communities that are vulnerable to intensifying weather disasters.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Federal database that tracked costly weather disasters no longer being updated How to prepare for an earthquake disaster Huge earthquakes have long been an existential crisis for millions along the West Coast, as described in a 2022 USA TODAY article.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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“Armageddon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Armageddon. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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