doom
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But techno-skeptics have argued that warnings of doom are designed to inflate valuations and hype the technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
"If people want to doom scroll… that's fine, that's up to them."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
A corona of cosmic doom shades the horizon of “Miss Wolcott’s Ghost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
But rather than being a harbinger of doom, Emanuel says, the shift is more a reflection of how AI-related risks have seeped into other markets, such as emerging-market stocks, bonds and corporate credit.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
I strained against the cords, overwhelmed by a sense of impending doom.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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“That dooms plaintiffs’ standing here,” the Justice Department wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
"If you’re stuck in the past, that usually dooms a partnership."
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
It fares no better on the merits, fox-trotting around an insurmountable Supreme Court precedent strictly limiting recusal that dooms the whole endeavor.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023
This dooms the great love of her life, with Pedro, who marries Tita’s sister just to be near her.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Yet, with her prescience, she was aware of dooms and sorrows outside her lover's purview.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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She also had a close call with the sunk cost fallacy: the failure to disengage from a probably doomed pursuit because of the time already invested in it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The masts had been visible from the Essex and Kent coasts since the doomed vessel sank with 1,400 tonnes of explosives onboard in 1944.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
"Any proposal that fails to reconcile our climate objectives with social and economic realities will be doomed to fail," said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
You there, yes you, the one sitting in seat 11E; you’re no better than the doomed dunces coming to see this production of “Fossil Fools.”
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
She isn’t a loser and she’s not doomed.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Jarmond’s easy-way-out decision is dooming the basketball program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
The crash should have flooded just two of the boat's six watertight compartments, but a missing door meant that three were compromised, dooming the vessel.
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
Frank added it to the bill, dooming it to failure; it would be another 13 years before both classes would win protection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Lindbergh signs a non-aggression pact with Hitler, dooming Britain and Russia to defeat.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
Didn’t Rowan realize that by sacrificing himself, he’d be dooming her as well?
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Vocabulary lists containing doom
"Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
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