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
People who know Tallinn describe him as surprisingly upbeat, despite his deep fears of an AI apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Artificial intelligence is pitched as a potential economic powerhouse—and also a potential bringer of the apocalypse.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
“I tell you all,” he whispered, “the apocalypse is nearer than we think!”
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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"America is an infant," a French survivor says, "but here, we survived many apocalypses."
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023
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
But apocalypses, rock bottoms of various kinds, can also be endings and beginnings at once.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
He believed it would be a purely earthly glory and felicity after the sort depicted in the Jewish apocalypses.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
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