doom
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He scores some brilliant goals too, as does Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, so I don't think it will be all doom and gloom for Everton fans this season, despite their frustration at the moment.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The recent regulatory shifts don’t spell doom for power plant owners, but the broad direction of travel favors new power generation—both on and off the grid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Local fisherman Wyck Crawford, played by a delightfully rascally Stephen Root, serves as Loftis’ human antagonist, warning the mayor of impending doom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Turning our children’s rest and activities into a series of numbers is a recipe for feeding the anxiety doom loop.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
This assumption became the engine of their doom.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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We need to understand why wishing ill on the other side is wrong and why such talk poisons civic life and dooms everyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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
Lack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at domestication, just as it dooms efforts at building a happy marriage.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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“Where that is, no one can tell me. Am I doomed to ever roam?”
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Noah Brier gets us up to speed on the state of artificial intelligence right now; from the A.I. arms race with China to the probability that we are all doomed.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
That doesn’t mean the technology is doomed to disappoint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It’s a plan that is doomed to fail,” Bobker said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
You might know with certainty that the entire subprime mortgage bond market was doomed, but you could do nothing about it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Roosevelt’s campaign shook the system, earning 88 electoral votes and dooming Taft’s reelection campaign in favor of the Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
While the documentary did not land Chow in prison, the filmmaker said he paid a steep price as investors and collaborators deserted him, almost dooming "Deadline".
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 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
“If we maintain the status quo, and if we don’t know how much water is in rivers and streams, we are essentially dooming some of our freshwater species.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
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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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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