Meaning of doomsday in English
(Definition of doomsday from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
doomsday | American Dictionary
the end of the world
Examples of doomsday
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For this, the analyst must consider several possible scenarios, including the doomsday scenario.
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Somewhere in my files will be found a copy of his doomsday text.
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The rest of us might do better to recall, when warned of the next doomsday, what ever became of the last one.
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I wrote a couple of indignant articles trying to explain the folly and announcing doomsday.
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They can automate their response, as with a doomsday machine, or change their environment, as when troops burn their bridges to make retreats impossible.
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Apparently, the creature will be released on doomsday and will play some role in the destruction to take place at that time.
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What about the argument that juxtaposes the doomsday machine with a guard and the guard with the person being guarded?
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For most acts of precommitment in everyday life do not take the form of external physical constraints, such as ropes, handcuffs and doomsday machines + they take the form of rules.
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Doomsday environmental predictions have held the media stage for many years; the public impact of these prognostications seems to be wearing thin.
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That is the doomsday scenario, which may or may not happen.
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Given increases that barely match inflation, some would say that we face a doomsday scenario.
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We could argue from now until doomsday about how to define an uneconomic pit.
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But there is no shortage of doomsday projections on which to reflect.
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All the doomsday predictions about the effects and outcome of the review are premature.
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We do not know what land will be acquired compulsorily by various authorities between now and doomsday.
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