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apocalypse

[uh-pok-uh-lips] / əˈpɒk ə lɪps /


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There are four horsemen of the financial apocalypse: income, spending, debt and savings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The satire from director Alejandro González Iñárritu about an impending climate change apocalypse has divided critics, yielding very mixed reviews.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Traitors castle should be a cakewalk compared with the apocalypse or the Battle of Winterfell, right?

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Artificial intelligence is pitched as a potential economic powerhouse—and also a potential bringer of the apocalypse.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Great. So, when is this apocalypse set to occur?”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

But, far more often, I found that apocalypses brought out people’s creativity and determination.

From Slate ● May 14, 2025

So I decided that I needed to give this class to my students, because they needed to know that apocalypses have been around for thousands of years, and nothing ever happens.

From Salon ● May 22, 2024

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

These terrors were an integral part of all the Jewish apocalypses.

From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan




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