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apocalypse

[uh-pok-uh-lips] / əˈpɒk ə lɪps /


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That’s attracted major productions including HBO’s apocalypse drama “The Last of Us,” which filmed its first season in Alberta; and FX’s “Shogun,” which shot in British Columbia, long a film hub.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

"As long as the conditions after the apocalypse were still OK for the plants to grow, because obviously they would have been through a lot."

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

The severity of seemingly mundane, everyday anxieties — school bullies, the prom, graduation, obnoxious Cher-obsessed college roommates — is on par with demons trying to hasten the apocalypse.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

As global biodiversity declines, including what some researchers describe as an "insect apocalypse," two ecologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst set out to examine how insects and arachnids are doing in the United States.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

It spiked in shafts through the apocalypse of smoke and dust as the citadel’s new center of gravity readjusted to the three remaining supports.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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