doom

Their defense rests partly on the threat of a doom spiral: Without the hole, the club couldn’t host professional tournaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Just seven days ago, there was doom and gloom around the performances of British players at this year's Wimbledon.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

On the positive side, a historical look at the stock market shows that past rate-hike cycles didn’t doom the stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026

He worried he would never escape his own destructive patterns or sense of impending doom.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a “brool” over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

His thoughtful and riveting performance ensures that we never stop pulling for Andy, even after he dooms the crew’s most vulnerable but least interesting member.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2024

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

Dustin May did everything right in his first start of 2023, but a lack of timely hitting dooms the Dodgers in a 2-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Navy, where toasting with water is essentially banned, as it dooms the toaster to a watery grave.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 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

A smart and entertaining heist story unfolds, which Mr. Rich pads out with a less convincing subplot about Tim’s doomed affair with Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

She admits to having a boyfriend, but says that relationship is doomed anyway.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Promoters of Graham Platner’s doomed Senate campaign in Maine disregarded that age-old warning, and now they are paying the price.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

"The tiger diplomacy of the last 10 years to dump tigers from India into that rampant hunting culture is doomed, I believe," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

He was worried he might become one of those ghosts if they lost this war—eternally doomed to pay for his failures, assuming there was anyone left to summon him.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Vibrations from earth-moving equipment could have triggered further collapses, possibly dooming Gil — and his would-be rescuers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

Knowing that handing off the mantle to any of these soft-bellied siblings meant dooming his life’s work, Roy let slip one of the most devastating parental assessments ever captured on television.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 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

I started the long trudge across the fields and had gone some distance before I paid any attention to the soft and muddy ground, which was dooming my city shoes.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles