apocalypse
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Moments later the apocalypse brothers wandered out into the hot and humid Florida night to continue what little time they have left of their World Cup party.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Before the latest peace agreement with Iran, there had been talk of an oil apocalypse, with some forecasts calling for prices of $150 a barrel or more.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Inside a glass-encased building in downtown Washington, D.C., this past week, a group of experts hunkered down to strategize how to avoid the AI apocalypse that many doomsayers predict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Lestat is slightly bored with existing yet curious to see whether his music, primarily plied on the Internet, can reach enough undead followers to hasten the vampire apocalypse known as The Great Conversion.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
"Nergal has brought on the apocalypse, and you're talking about herbal remedies. This isn't like treating a cold with a slice of lemon."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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But, far more often, I found that apocalypses brought out people’s creativity and determination.
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
It bears all the traces of the pseudepigraphic tendency of a period that produced the first works of the Cabala, the Seder Olam Zutta of Rabbi Joshua, and the neo-Hebraic apocalypses.
From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman
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