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[doom] / dum /


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But the picture is not just doom and gloom.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

It’s not all doom and gloom in the software sector, as some high-profile stocks have posted standout gains this year while their peers languish.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Cities like New York were caught in urban doom loops, and stagflation weighed down the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

He worried he would never escape his own destructive patterns or sense of impending doom.

From Slate Jun. 18, 2026

But like the crack of doom, the headwaiter’s voice rang out: “All be upstanding for Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cheddar Gorge!”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

His thoughtful and riveting performance ensures that we never stop pulling for Andy, even after he dooms the crew’s most vulnerable but least interesting member.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2024

Bonello leaves the question hanging, but this elegant, jittery drama ultimately proposes a troubling answer: Maybe there is no beast out there — maybe it’s our fear of feeling too deeply that dooms us.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2024

It fares no better on the merits, fox-trotting around an insurmountable Supreme Court precedent strictly limiting recusal that dooms the whole endeavor.

From Slate Sep. 13, 2023

Navy, where toasting with water is essentially banned, as it dooms the toaster to a watery grave.

From Seattle Times Mar. 22, 2023

Lack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at domestication, just as it dooms efforts at building a happy marriage.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Promoters of Graham Platner’s doomed Senate campaign in Maine disregarded that age-old warning, and now they are paying the price.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

"The tiger diplomacy of the last 10 years to dump tigers from India into that rampant hunting culture is doomed, I believe," he told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

This modest trawler, the Rose of Nevada, no longer contains its doomed crew and yet here it is, without explanation and ready for new fishermen.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

In May, Google announced it would launch its own pair of smart glasses a decade on from the doomed Google Glass, which had been pulled after backlash on price and privacy concerns.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

They keep telling me I should talk less, mind my own business and be more modest, but I seem doomed to failure.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Vibrations from earth-moving equipment could have triggered further collapses, possibly dooming Gil — and his would-be rescuers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

While the documentary did not land Chow in prison, the filmmaker said he paid a steep price as investors and collaborators deserted him, almost dooming "Deadline".

From Barron's Dec. 22, 2025

Knowing that handing off the mantle to any of these soft-bellied siblings meant dooming his life’s work, Roy let slip one of the most devastating parental assessments ever captured on television.

From Salon Dec. 9, 2025

Frank added it to the bill, dooming it to failure; it would be another 13 years before both classes would win protection.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

I started the long trudge across the fields and had gone some distance before I paid any attention to the soft and muddy ground, which was dooming my city shoes.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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