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doomsdayers

noun

plural of doomsdayer

as in Cassandras

one given to forebodings and predictions of impending calamity once again doomsdayers were issuing warnings about the dangers of nuclear proliferation

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Jensen Huang has argued that the doomsayers mistook the task of reading scans for the whole job.

— Han Wang, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
But given the dismal prognostication record of climate doomsayers — wasn’t New York City supposed to be under water by now?

— Editorial, Boston Herald, 25 Dec. 2025

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