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apocalypse

[uh-pok-uh-lips] / əˈpɒk ə lɪps /


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The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Rather than fear an AI-cyber apocalypse in the meantime, Prof Woodward says, "it's a case of 'keep calm and fix stuff'".

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

She detested the East Coast avatars of apocalypse, like Nathanael West, who saw only doom and gloom in sunny L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 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

The group across the table stared at him like it was the advent of the apocalypse.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

But, far more often, I found that apocalypses brought out people’s creativity and determination.

From Slate May 14, 2025

"America is an infant," a French survivor says, "but here, we survived many apocalypses."

From Salon Sep. 10, 2023

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

But it did not imply, any more than it implies now, either a chronological datum or a prophetic picture of the social organization like those in the apocalypses and the ancient prophesies.

From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Antonio Labriola




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