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
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
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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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