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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
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The painting conjures a roiling ocean, as though Whitten—who later became a scuba diver, and enjoyed hunting octopuses—were envisioning a doomsday resurrection of the Middle Passage dead.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 May 2025
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Met by some with cautious optimism, others with trepidation, and others with doomsday predictions, there is no doubt that AI is here to stay and changing work in ways yet to be fully revealed.—
Laurel Donnellan,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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In 2023, his use of the R-word as a slur in his special Ricky Gervais: Armageddon prompted a petition asking that Netflix remove his joke from the stand-up special.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
31 May 2025
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Thankfully, that theory has yet to be tested, although a 1983 ABC television movie called The Day After painted a vivid and terrifying what-if nuclear Armageddon scenario.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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As bad luck would have it, when Panahi’s film screened to critics this writer was trapped on an airplane as a minor apocalypse descended upon Nice airport.—
Thomas Page,
CNN Money,
24 May 2025
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And is vanilla cake easier in the zombie apocalypse because extract has a longer shelf life than cocoa powder?—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
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Meantime Marty and his ex-wife Felicia (Karen Gillan), on good terms, commiserate by phone about the latest roster of calamities.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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All these calamities are happening simultaneously — so many disasters coming at such speed that the bad news slams into Marty like a psychological avalanche.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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After the fires, the governor formed the Climate Advisory Team (CAT) to develop climate disaster policy recommendations.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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Though the Sixers remained a disaster without Embiid on the floor over those past two seasons, Maxey hit that 26-points-per-game mark and arrived as a star in this league.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/end-time. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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