apocalyptic
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“De Gaulle’s thinking, by contrast, was permeated by a sense of the inevitable and by a melancholy, sometimes apocalyptic, belief that all human enterprises will fail sooner or later.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
One piece of data triggers optimism, followed just days, or hours, later by apocalyptic dread.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Italian football journalist James Horncastle said: "It was called apocalyptic the first time they missed out. I don't know what stage of the apocalypse we are in now."
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
However, the apocalyptic beliefs surrounding these books are far more recent.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
One man who took such apocalyptic speculation seriously was Leo Szilard, the energetic and resourceful Hungarian physicist who had tried to patent a prototypical cyclotron just before Lawrence’s practical invention.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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