apocalypse
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There are four horsemen of the financial apocalypse: income, spending, debt and savings.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The film is a satire about an impending climate change apocalypse that’s triggered by the drilling operations of oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, played by Cruise, who looks nearly unrecognizable clad in prosthetics and greying hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Some economists worry about an impending artificial-intelligence job apocalypse, but so far there is no conclusive evidence that automation is killing lots of white-collar positions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
It feels like we're the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
But, far more often, I found that apocalypses brought out people’s creativity and determination.
From Slate ● May 14, 2025
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
And apocalypses tend to force children to grow up faster, rather than slower.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023
To the historical student these apocalypses have become, in their general character and chief messages, among the best instead of quite the least understood books of the canon.
From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard la Rue Swain
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