END-TIME Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

end-time

noun

Definition of end-time

as in Armageddon

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Recent Examples of end-time He was raised Presbyterian but exposed to a swirl of end-times ideas. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026 Here are the start and end-times for each portion of the upcoming free play period. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Trump says likewise—and brandishes variations of the QAnon end-time faith to invite his followers to imagine the most gruesome varieties of cosmic comeuppance on offer. — Matthew Avery Sutton, Washington Post, 7 May 2025 Lori and Chad Daybell adopted end-times religious beliefs and claimed they had been called to fulfill a divine mission. — Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for end-time

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Noun

The crime thriller has Gray having helmed a semi-fictionalized return to his family life in mid-1980s Queens and is also a companion piece to his 2022 film Armageddon Time.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up to avert Armageddon.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026

Definition of Armageddon

Noun

Why private credit may avoid a ‘crisis-apocalypse’ Blackstone’s scale attracts outsized scrutiny, and investors’ attempts to pull money from its private credit funds earlier this year made headline news.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Messages break down, signals decay, information rots; the stuff of everyday data dystopia and media apocalypse, but in Braxton’s hands, raw material to be shaped into something recombinant and strange.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of apocalypse

Noun

Young Pavi and her twin sister, Nisha, live in a world that no longer sees the Avatar as humanity’s savior after it was devastated by a calamity.

— Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
The flooding in Nepal is yet another calamity for a country grimly accustomed to crisis and upheaval.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of calamity

Noun

Summary Coastal and high-risk hotels face soaring insurance premiums, up 45-100%, as natural catastrophe losses escalate.

— Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
That didn’t stop catastrophes like the 2018 fire in the Sierra foothills that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of catastrophe

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