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apocalypse

[uh-pok-uh-lips] / əˈpɒk ə lɪps /


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Critics and audiences responded in turn, taking an immediate shine to Bryan’s doofiness and contrasting it with Alice’s purposeful, goal-oriented approach to a zombie apocalypse.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

She sent Grace off with three crates of supplies, which her daughter described as being "stocked for the apocalypse just in case anything went awry".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The president and lawmakers were talking about AI policy, news organizations had multiple headlines a day and fears about a potential AI-driven apocalypse had taken hold across the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Warnings of an AI apocalypse hang heavy over the Chinese president's first talks at the White House with his US counterpart, with both countries racing for supremacy in this technology.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

You could see others poking their heads out of the windows, trying to understand why the track looked like an apocalypse movie.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

The game has no guns, no Marios, no apocalypses.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

They weave climate apocalypses, time travel and virtual reality with Yoruba mythology, Amazonian deforestation and ayahuasca-inspired psychedelic plants.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

Burns and his co-showrunner, Dorothy Fortenberry, argue that film and TV have their own version of the same problem: Climate apocalypses create immediate drama and character-level tension.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023

And apocalypses tend to force children to grow up faster, rather than slower.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2023

It bears all the traces of the pseudepigraphic tendency of a period that produced the first works of the Cabala, the Seder Olam Zutta of Rabbi Joshua, and the neo-Hebraic apocalypses.

From Josephus by Norman Bentwich




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