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Recent Examples of end-time
Under Kale’s leadership, the church focused on the end-times, frequently reading from the Book of Revelation, former members say.
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Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
Here, the credits have that same debauchery but weave in more elements of the original end-times vibe.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
But his one-liner about tariffs and immigration felt like end-times overload after his opening message about the L.A. wildfires.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025
And waiting until doomsday had become a very real and timed concept for which scientists had wound a clock with its end-times alarm set to go off in minutes.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
In a scene out of biblical end-times, yellow jackets swarmed in the days after the storm — displaced after falling trees and floodwaters destroyed their nests.
—Kim Dinan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Despite the end-times detente between long-battling brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis that recently led to their announcement of a 2025 UK tour, some things in the music feud world never change.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2024
With all the predictions of end-times chaos and nearly every Parisian having decamped for Marseille or Puglia, that feels especially true this year.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024
Miller unspools this cartoonish end-times mythology with whirligig aplomb that goes on and on — as monotonous as Denis Villeneuve’s Dune but livelier, with mobile camera angles, ever-widening aerial exteriors, and huge crowds dodging flame-throwers.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2024
Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
Here, the credits have that same debauchery but weave in more elements of the original end-times vibe.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
But his one-liner about tariffs and immigration felt like end-times overload after his opening message about the L.A. wildfires.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025
And waiting until doomsday had become a very real and timed concept for which scientists had wound a clock with its end-times alarm set to go off in minutes.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
In a scene out of biblical end-times, yellow jackets swarmed in the days after the storm — displaced after falling trees and floodwaters destroyed their nests.
—Kim Dinan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Despite the end-times detente between long-battling brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis that recently led to their announcement of a 2025 UK tour, some things in the music feud world never change.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2024
With all the predictions of end-times chaos and nearly every Parisian having decamped for Marseille or Puglia, that feels especially true this year.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024
Miller unspools this cartoonish end-times mythology with whirligig aplomb that goes on and on — as monotonous as Denis Villeneuve’s Dune but livelier, with mobile camera angles, ever-widening aerial exteriors, and huge crowds dodging flame-throwers.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for end-time
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The painting conjures a roiling ocean, as though Whitten—who later became a scuba diver, and enjoyed hunting octopuses—were envisioning a doomsday resurrection of the Middle Passage dead.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 May 2025
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Met by some with cautious optimism, others with trepidation, and others with doomsday predictions, there is no doubt that AI is here to stay and changing work in ways yet to be fully revealed.—
Laurel Donnellan,
Forbes.com,
28 May 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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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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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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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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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end-time. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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