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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
Miller unspools this cartoonish end-times mythology with whirligig aplomb that goes on and on — as monotonous as Denis Villeneuve’s Dune but livelier, with mobile camera angles, ever-widening aerial exteriors, and huge crowds dodging flame-throwers.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 May 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
Miller unspools this cartoonish end-times mythology with whirligig aplomb that goes on and on — as monotonous as Denis Villeneuve’s Dune but livelier, with mobile camera angles, ever-widening aerial exteriors, and huge crowds dodging flame-throwers.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for end-time
Noun
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But Oppenheimer is a talky period piece, an exploration of a man and his mind, with only a flash-forward warning about doomsday tacked on to the ending.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2025
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Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin, The Agora’s founders, have been selling doomsday investment advice since 1979 — the advent of the internet itself.—
Emily Baker-White,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
Noun
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In one fell swoop, though, Trump not only saved Israel and the Middle East from a nuclear Armageddon, but possibly western civilization as well.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
4 July 2025
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While that really isn't saying much, at least Deep Impact sends a team of astronauts (led by Robert Duvall) rather than drillers to deal with the comet hurtling toward Earth, deflecting Ben Affleck's famous critique of Armageddon.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
Noun
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The film, as per the press notes, redefines human fears in the face of apocalypse in a contemporary dystopia that puts Black and Indigenous characters at the center of a story about people defending their land from those who would kill them for it without a second thought.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
3 July 2025
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Ramsey currently stars as apocalypse survivor Ellie on the HBO zombie drama The Last of Us; it was renewed for Season 3 in April, days ahead of the Season 2 premiere.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Promises to be full of dry banter in the face of historical upheaval and emotional calamity, which is my favorite Alameddine mode.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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This approach came of age following the ecological calamity of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and remains the planet’s most successful conservation approach.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Noun
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For these communities and others like them (our thoughts are with the people of Central Texas), several days of disaster usually means years of arduous reconstruction.—
Louis Gritzo,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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In any disaster, responding quickly can help save people and salve the harm.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2025
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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end-time. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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