rapture
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A recent YouGov poll asked, “If the Rapture were to occur tonight, do you think you would be more likely to ascend to heaven or to be left behind?”
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025
No one returned a phone message left Saturday at Rapture Guns & Knives, the Lakeland store owned by the Pollock family and where Hutchinson once worked.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024
Moving from the street to the screen, leading New York graffiti artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Fab 5 Freddy appeared in the first rap video broadcast on MTV, for post-punk band Blondie's track Rapture.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2023
The family didn’t anticipate the Rapture, but it lived out other aspects of the vision that set Mennonites on the ancient Silk Road; Samatar confronts anew the complications of that vision.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022
The third gate is poetically named the Gate of True Rapture, and the fourth, the Gate of Gentle Sorrow.
From The Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax
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