doom
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The result, broken up into seasons and marked by an impending sense of doom, is a multipart puzzle box as intricately folded and tucked as the traditional clothing on display.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
That is the way out of the discourse doom loop and into the solution.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
You may have noticed that amid all this domestic doom and gloom, China keeps exporting like gangbusters, with industrial production and export sales among the few bright points in the economic story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Losing ground over the first couple of years post-IPO does not necessarily doom a stock’s long-term potential.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Ignoring a feeling of impending doom, Fadi had felt a surge of satisfaction as he’d seen Ike’s face.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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"If you’re stuck in the past, that usually dooms a partnership."
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
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
This dooms the great love of her life, with Pedro, who marries Tita’s sister just to be near her.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Qxd5 Bxd5 dooms White’s e-pawn and his game.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Yet, with her prescience, she was aware of dooms and sorrows outside her lover's purview.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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But I think the combination of everything has doomed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
"We were all sick, so it was doomed from the start," recalls guitarist Josette Maskin.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
But neither is the mainframe business and its associated software doomed, given that it remains competitive in certain markets, he argued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"If we fail to draw conclusions, to change our attitude toward service, to acknowledge our mistakes, we are doomed," he said at the time.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
In what seemed even to me a doomed and Pyrrhic gesture, I switched to English literature without telling my parents.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
At once menacing and clownish, Martin consistently tripped over his own incompetence, mendacity, and ignorance, ultimately dooming his chances of confirmation.
From Slate ● May 10, 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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Vocabulary lists containing doom
"Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
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