Armageddon
noun
Ar·ma·ged·don
ˌär-mə-ˈge-dᵊn 
1
a
: the site or time of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil
b
: the battle taking place at Armageddon
2
: a usually vast decisive conflict or confrontation
Examples of Armageddon in a Sentence
the threat of nuclear Armageddon
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The atom bomb was the hot force which secularized Armageddon.
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Ed Simon
august 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
Entire ecosystems of expertise had blossomed in academia and government to model the scenarios that might lead to Armageddon, and the resulting game theory, though sophisticated, was relatively straightforward.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
President Erika Sloane, however, convinces Ethan to return to stop a self-aware artificial intelligence program called The Entity before the AI takes control of all the world’s nuclear arsenals and causes nuclear Armageddon.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
The arms race played out through the 1960s, building stockpiles of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles on both sides until its folly, and frightening close brushes with Armageddon, lowered those numbers in an era of détente, the sort of world that Bethe had called for in his article.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2025
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Ed Simon
august 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
Entire ecosystems of expertise had blossomed in academia and government to model the scenarios that might lead to Armageddon, and the resulting game theory, though sophisticated, was relatively straightforward.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
President Erika Sloane, however, convinces Ethan to return to stop a self-aware artificial intelligence program called The Entity before the AI takes control of all the world’s nuclear arsenals and causes nuclear Armageddon.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
The arms race played out through the 1960s, building stockpiles of tens of thousands of nuclear missiles on both sides until its folly, and frightening close brushes with Armageddon, lowered those numbers in an era of détente, the sort of world that Bethe had called for in his article.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Armageddon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Armageddon. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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