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as in ruling
a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard
the judge solemnly pronounced his doom before a hushed courtroom
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as in destiny
a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand
it was her doom to be haunted by the memory of that terrible day
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as in demise
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities
met his doom at the hands of a rampaging rhinoceros
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as in to destine
to determine the fate of in advance
the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance
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as in to sentence
to impose a judicial punishment on
doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole
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Recent Examples of doom
Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Disney-style optimism is an attractive trait for someone in a generation wracked by doom and anxiety.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Sep. 2025
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Has this embarrassment of visual riches guaranteed that any story told on a smaller canvas is doomed to feel unambitious in comparison?
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The mood in clean tech is far from doom and gloom.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Disney-style optimism is an attractive trait for someone in a generation wracked by doom and anxiety.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
The heart of the story involves a romantic epiphany that’s also an unspoken recognition of homosexual desire; Michèle’s matchmaking scheme is a vicarious replacement for something that’s doomed to go unfulfilled.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Has this embarrassment of visual riches guaranteed that any story told on a smaller canvas is doomed to feel unambitious in comparison?
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doom
Noun
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Plaintiffs, including people who benefited from the legal protections, urged the appeals court to endorse the district court ruling, which found that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could not categorically end protections for these groups, but instead had to evaluate each case individually.—
Michael Casey,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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As Smith collected himself, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts tried to challenge the ruling.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Russia has not rediscovered its imperial destiny.—
Jeremy Shapiro,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Progress beats perfection, and everyone is the master of their own destiny.—
Point Loma-Ob Monthly,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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The atmosphere also helped play a role in the rapid demise of Hurricane Lorena off the Mexico coast, sparing that region a direct landfall.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The canonical work of Edward Curtis established the tragic view and elegiac rhetoric of Native people as noble savages unassimilable to Progress and hence destined for cultural, if not biological, extinction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The pair's emotional journey was captured in a viral TikTok video with over 1 million likes, a story that internet viewers believe was destined to happen.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Borgwardt, who could not be reached for comment for this report, pleaded no contest last month to obstructing an officer and was sentenced to 89 days in jail.—
Jared Kofsky,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Brown pleaded guilty to robbery with a dangerous weapon in February 2015 and was sentenced to a minimum of six years and one month and a maximum of eight years and four months in prison.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Sep. 2025
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The judge found that nine of the jurors either never knew about the text message at all or only learned about it after reaching their verdict.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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Alam’s family and supporters in the courtroom let out an initial gasp at relief when the jury returned a verdict without immediate jail time.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Sep. 2025
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The fate of higher education will determine the strength of our workforce, the pace of innovation, and America's global competitiveness.—
Leadership Brainery,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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With just 24 hours to decide the fate of the house, old resentments bubble up, secrets are exposed and shifting alliances test whatever bonds remain.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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Leaders from around the world mourned the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated at a Utah university Wednesday.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement ‘This is war’ Several on the right have likened Kirk’s death to a declaration of war.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Doom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doom. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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