the apocalypse
noun
: the end or destruction of the world especially as described in the Christian Bible
Some people believed the apocalypse would happen in the year 2000.
waiting for the apocalypse
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Episode Four The arrival of Isaac Episode four picks up with a flashback to 2018 (15 years into the apocalypse), where a platoon of FEDRA soldiers is riding in an APC.
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2025
But The Last of Us gave the apocalypse a natural cause, one that’s chillingly plausible.
—New Atlas, 12 Apr. 2025
Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
—Jeremy Hanna, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
This is the apocalypse, so this is far from the first time Ellie has killed someone.
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2025
But The Last of Us gave the apocalypse a natural cause, one that’s chillingly plausible.
—New Atlas, 12 Apr. 2025
Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
—Jeremy Hanna, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
This is the apocalypse, so this is far from the first time Ellie has killed someone.
—Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 12 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for the apocalypse
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“The apocalypse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20apocalypse. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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