as in disaster
a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction
the fear that the next global pandemic could be an apocalypse of biblical proportions
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Recent Examples of apocalypse
And is vanilla cake easier in the zombie apocalypse because extract has a longer shelf life than cocoa powder?
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EW.com, 19 May 2025
Yet the concerns about a coming apocalypse would also have to be balanced against OpenAI’s growing business: ChatGPT was a hit, and Altman wanted more.
—Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
But the sentiment behind that particularly memorable piece of graffiti — scrawled near a pile of corpses strung up in a zombie apocalypse — pulses beneath every beat in Bella Ramsey’s wrathful performance.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
The second season of The Walking Dead spinoff premiered May 4, and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are learning that New York is still the city that never sleeps — even after a zombie apocalypse.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 5 May 2025
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EW.com, 19 May 2025
Yet the concerns about a coming apocalypse would also have to be balanced against OpenAI’s growing business: ChatGPT was a hit, and Altman wanted more.
—Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
But the sentiment behind that particularly memorable piece of graffiti — scrawled near a pile of corpses strung up in a zombie apocalypse — pulses beneath every beat in Bella Ramsey’s wrathful performance.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
The second season of The Walking Dead spinoff premiered May 4, and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are learning that New York is still the city that never sleeps — even after a zombie apocalypse.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apocalypse
Noun
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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Federal database that tracked costly weather disasters no longer being updated How to prepare for an earthquake disaster Huge earthquakes have long been an existential crisis for millions along the West Coast, as described in a 2022 USA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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Each of these tragedies reverberates through their departments and communities, amplifying the sense of vulnerability and loss.—
Jillian E. Snider,
Boston Herald,
13 June 2025
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Just hours before the accident, Kapur made a tribute to the Air India plane crash tragedy.—
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13 June 2025
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Meantime Marty and his ex-wife Felicia (Karen Gillan), on good terms, commiserate by phone about the latest roster of calamities.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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All these calamities are happening simultaneously — so many disasters coming at such speed that the bad news slams into Marty like a psychological avalanche.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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“Apocalypse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apocalypse. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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