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"I hear, here and there, the prophets of doom predicting the worst," said Finance Minister Roland Lescure regarding France's ability to service its debt.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

A Lightcone team member wrote that he had been an AI doom thinker since 2007.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The new report said Thames Water, alongside other "poor-performing" water companies, was in a "doom loop" of fines for poor performance leaving it with less money to invest in improvements.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“When people say, ‘my probability of doom is x or y or whatever, it hits in a different way,” said Altman.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

They went in despairing grief, leaving the lovely helpless creature to meet her doom alone, and they shut themselves in their palace to mourn all their days for her.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

This balancing sometimes dooms legislative changes, even when they have large budgetary effects.

From Slate ● May 29, 2025

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

That likely dooms his chances of claiming immunity from state prosecution under the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 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

I don’t think you are doomed, but nor do I have tips or tricks — except to say that if you don’t talk about it, this economic disparity will become bigger than both of you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Before Kao’s doomed reign as CEO, Navatek was a sleepy Hawaiian engineering company with a few dozen employees.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

It's likely to be the most significant royal book since Prince Harry's startling 2023 memoir, Spare, and Andrew Lownie's 2025 book Entitled, which doomed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's reputation.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

No, we aren’t doomed, but the models are advancing more quickly than our understanding of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Because I’ve felt doomed all week,” Zeke said, raising his lizard fists, taking a lizard fighting stance, “and right now, I don’t feel that way at all.”

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

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

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

He paced off most of the lot, dooming the proposal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024

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