as in disaster
a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction
the fear that the next global pandemic could be an apocalypse of biblical proportions
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Recent Examples of apocalypse
The horsemen of the SaaS apocalypse are productivity gains, structural changes in software and investor sentiment.
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Ron Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
As the game’s writer and creative director, Druckmann was the lead architect of its astonishing story of grief and trauma amid a zombie apocalypse.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
The end of the world is usually dramatized as convulsive and feverish, but population loss is an apocalypse on an installment plan.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Post-rationalists, by contrast, take a range of attitudes toward that approaching apocalypse.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 24 Feb. 2025
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Ron Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
As the game’s writer and creative director, Druckmann was the lead architect of its astonishing story of grief and trauma amid a zombie apocalypse.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
The end of the world is usually dramatized as convulsive and feverish, but population loss is an apocalypse on an installment plan.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Post-rationalists, by contrast, take a range of attitudes toward that approaching apocalypse.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apocalypse
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Last month, the EU Commission urged its 450 million citizens to stockpile enough food, water and essentials for 72 hours in the event of emergencies like cyberattacks, climate disasters, disease and also geopolitical conflicts.—
Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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The disaster led to passage of the Federal Coal Mine and Safety Act, which in turn added the miners' surveillance program under the respiratory health division at NIOSH.—
Yuki Noguchi,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2025
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Instagram comment sections are flooded with hearts and flowers; the media memorializes a tragedy.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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These events devastate local communities not just as the tragedy unfolds but in its aftermath.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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How to sear into a reader’s brain the profound calamity of a dozen savage killings?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Trump spoke before the worldwide stock market calamity finally got to him.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Apocalypse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apocalypse. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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