end-time

noun

often attributive
: the time of the prophesied end of the world : armageddon

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Under Kale’s leadership, the church focused on the end-times, frequently reading from the Book of Revelation, former members say. Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025 Here, the credits have that same debauchery but weave in more elements of the original end-times vibe. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025 But his one-liner about tariffs and immigration felt like end-times overload after his opening message about the L.A. wildfires. Justin Curto, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025 And waiting until doomsday had become a very real and timed concept for which scientists had wound a clock with its end-times alarm set to go off in minutes. Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024 In a scene out of biblical end-times, yellow jackets swarmed in the days after the storm — displaced after falling trees and floodwaters destroyed their nests. Kim Dinan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024 Despite the end-times detente between long-battling brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis that recently led to their announcement of a 2025 UK tour, some things in the music feud world never change. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2024 With all the predictions of end-times chaos and nearly every Parisian having decamped for Marseille or Puglia, that feels especially true this year. Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024 Given that live programming, particularly live sports, has traditionally been the bread and butter of cable television, could expanded live offerings on streaming services be end-time for cable? Justin Klawans, theweek, 2 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of end-time was in 1917

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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/end-time. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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