apocalypse
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The apocalypse brothers remained unmoved as the game raged into the second half, Egypt retreating further as Mohamed Salah departed.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Before the latest peace agreement with Iran, there had been talk of an oil apocalypse, with some forecasts calling for prices of $150 a barrel or more.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Lestat is slightly bored with existing yet curious to see whether his music, primarily plied on the Internet, can reach enough undead followers to hasten the vampire apocalypse known as The Great Conversion.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
The software apocalypse story is hardly the only source of uncertainty about Oracle’s future.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Because a water-zombie apocalypse is not truly over until kids go back to school.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Yes, the details of the apocalypses I’ve researched throughout history can be tragic, and sometimes horrifying.
From Slate ● May 14, 2025
"America is an infant," a French survivor says, "but here, we survived many apocalypses."
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023
The game has no guns, no Marios, no apocalypses.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 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
The literary world is flooded with old men seeing visions and young men dreaming dreams, with various stages of anti-competitive enthusiasm, with economic apocalypses, elaborate Utopias and mushroom destinies of mankind.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
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