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Armageddon

[ahr-muh-ged-n] / ˌɑr məˈgɛd n /




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I recently rewatched Armageddon, complete with Bruce Willis, oil drillers sent into space, and an asteroid the size of Texas racing toward Earth.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

DiFucci believes “the Armageddon scenario currently priced into the stock is misaligned with reality,” although he conceded that AI poses “a significant risk” to the traditional software-as-a-service business model.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

The press is warning of nuclear Armageddon after an arms-control treaty between Russia and the United States expired this week.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

Based on the state of the tariff world at that time, it looked like trade Armageddon had started.

From MarketWatch Jan. 8, 2026

“Most of their eggs are quite safe—and delicious! But it was the exploding ones that earned them their rather unkind name: Armageddon chickens.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Musk, in particular, talks of war, pandemics, rebel AIs and asteroid Armageddons all making it vital for humans to become a multiplanetary species.

From The Guardian May 18, 2019

These are extreme cases, perhaps—barring Armageddons, you might expect people to know what they are called.

From The New Yorker Mar. 3, 2015

When we’re this close to two Armageddons, what does all the “grand bargain” talk mean?

From Slate Nov. 4, 2011

They marched in Athens and Nineveh and Marathon, fighting their various Armageddons.

From Time Magazine Archive

There has not been a presidential contest since Jackson's day without its Armageddons, its marching of Christian soldiers, its crosses of gold, its crowns of thorns.

From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken




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