apocalypse
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The satire from director Alejandro González Iñárritu about an impending climate change apocalypse has divided critics, yielding very mixed reviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The Traitors castle should be a cakewalk compared with the apocalypse or the Battle of Winterfell, right?
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Artificial intelligence is pitched as a potential economic powerhouse—and also a potential bringer of the apocalypse.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
Critics and audiences responded in turn, taking an immediate shine to Bryan’s doofiness and contrasting it with Alice’s purposeful, goal-oriented approach to a zombie apocalypse.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
With my dad, the embers of armageddon will quickly grow into a full-on blazing apocalypse in his head.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Yes, the details of the apocalypses I’ve researched throughout history can be tragic, and sometimes horrifying.
From Slate ● May 14, 2025
The game has no guns, no Marios, no apocalypses.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Burns and his co-showrunner, Dorothy Fortenberry, argue that film and TV have their own version of the same problem: Climate apocalypses create immediate drama and character-level tension.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
And apocalypses tend to force children to grow up faster, rather than slower.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023
The increase of such apocryphal productions, gospels, acts, and apocalypses among the heretical parties stimulated the orthodox bishops and churches to make an authentic collection; but it increased the difficulties of the task.
From The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson
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