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apocalypse

[uh-pok-uh-lips] / əˈpɒk ə lɪps /


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Her plucky Annie Clay dominates the first episode, “Graceland,” riding out a worldwide apocalypse in Elvis’ mansion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

These odd phenomena convinced ancient cultures that eclipses were signs of the apocalypse -- or messages from the gods.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

This is someone who recently wrote a paper categorizing the ways AI might kill everyone, applying a mathematician’s instinct for order to the apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

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

Only birds would survive this sort of apocalypse.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

Or if not “better” exactly, then far more hopeful than TV’s other apocalypses, from “The Walking Dead” to “Y: The Last Man,” would have led you to expect.

From New York Times Dec. 15, 2021

If he had been only an enthusiast, led away by the apocalypses on which the popular imagination fed, he would have remained an obscure sectary, inferior to those whose ideas he followed.

From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan




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