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apocalypse

[uh-pok-uh-lips] / əˈpɒk ə lɪps /


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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

While everyone argues about whether AI will eventually bring about the apocalypse, hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent building the infrastructure underneath it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Against the tangerine blush of the afternoon sun, it looked like the apocalypse had already touched down in Virginia.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

So I decided that I needed to give this class to my students, because they needed to know that apocalypses have been around for thousands of years, and nothing ever happens.

From Salon ● May 22, 2024

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

Amid the anxiety of Covid and various other apocalypses, the album set its grand tone with an opening song based around a monologue by the teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

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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