apocalypse
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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
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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
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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