as in disaster
the day the world ends or is destroyed
a warning that doomsday is near doomsday predictions
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Recent Examples of doomsday
However, Israel reserves these strategic missiles for a doomsday scenario involving the use of its undeclared nuclear weapons rather than for conventional strikes and wars.
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
As the boos began to rain down in the third period of Game 5, the Leafs doomsday clock ticked a few seconds closer to midnight.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Stanford Research Park, however, has defied the doomsday trends.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025
Her doomsday religious beliefs led her to kill her two youngest children and engage in a plot to kill a romantic rival in the state.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
As the boos began to rain down in the third period of Game 5, the Leafs doomsday clock ticked a few seconds closer to midnight.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Stanford Research Park, however, has defied the doomsday trends.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025
Her doomsday religious beliefs led her to kill her two youngest children and engage in a plot to kill a romantic rival in the state.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doomsday
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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Federal database that tracked costly weather disasters no longer being updated How to prepare for an earthquake disaster Huge earthquakes have long been an existential crisis for millions along the West Coast, as described in a 2022 USA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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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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Critics of renewables will rightly point out that renewables are cheap as long as battery storage is not included in their price, and the sudden collapse of an entire electric grid for 12 hours incurs a staggering economic burden that should be priced into cost calculations.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
7 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.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
13 June 2025
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That’s the premise of the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon (as well as the 2021 Netflix satire Don’t Look Up).—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 June 2025
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Young motorists with extinction start-ups, hoping to make a killing and retire early without ever having to put on a suit, were clogging the highway to Armageddon.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 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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“Doomsday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomsday. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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