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Recent Examples of end-time
Under Kale’s leadership, the church focused on the end-times, frequently reading from the Book of Revelation, former members say.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for end-time
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The genre-tripping trailer for horror hitmaker Flanagan’s doomsday drama only hints at the end of Chuck’s life with early snippets of an ECG heart line and a ticking clock.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Mar. 2025
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This is not the doomsday scenario of human extinction that some people in the AI field have warned could arise from the technology.—
Paulo Carvão,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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The backlash on Wall Street and among EV buyers feels like Armageddon, with vandalism at Tesla showrooms and charging stations over Musk’s politics.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
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Two of your biggest and most beloved 1990s hits have, a bit surprisingly, never had sequels, The Rock and Armageddon.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Bondsman never seems to know quite how seriously to take the state of Hub’s soul, or the looming possibility of apocalypse, or all the many, many deaths along the way.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
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But these posthumous men have already survived an apocalypse of a kind.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The historical upward trajectory of the stock market has reduced the greatest economic calamity in U.S. history into a blip.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Southeast Asian region continues to grapple with the calamity's aftereffects.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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All the while, he’s typically dressed in a form-fitting dress, a shoulder-length wig and heeled boots (because open-toed shoes around hatchets and augers could spell disaster).—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2025
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However, he’s also had his share of expensive disasters, such as Joao Felix, Santiago Arias and Nikola Kalinić.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end-time. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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