apocalypse
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The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Rather than fear an AI-cyber apocalypse in the meantime, Prof Woodward says, "it's a case of 'keep calm and fix stuff'".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
This is someone who recently wrote a paper categorizing the ways AI might kill everyone, applying a mathematician’s instinct for order to the apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
“The Walking Dead” premiered on the AMC network in 2010, introducing audiences to the high-stakes world of a zombie apocalypse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
There’s no such thing as a zombie apocalypse, he told himself, but his heart didn’t get the message and started to pound.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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
He believed it would be a purely earthly glory and felicity after the sort depicted in the Jewish apocalypses.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
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