apocalypse
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There are four horsemen of the financial apocalypse: income, spending, debt and savings.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Inside Berkeley’s tallest office building, a small community of AI researchers has been mobilizing to save the world from apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The Traitors castle should be a cakewalk compared with the apocalypse or the Battle of Winterfell, right?
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
We could do all that stuff even without the apocalypse.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
But, far more often, I found that apocalypses brought out people’s creativity and determination.
From Slate ● May 14, 2025
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
They weave climate apocalypses, time travel and virtual reality with Yoruba mythology, Amazonian deforestation and ayahuasca-inspired psychedelic plants.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
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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