doomsday event
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Noun
doomsday event (plural doomsday events)
- (cosmology, astronomy) An occurrence which causes the end of the universe or which destroys the planet earth; a global cataclysm.
- 1995 April 7, Malcolm W. Browne, “A Research Team Detects Many More Galaxies”, in New York Times, retrieved 5 July 2008:
- The universe will contract and grow hotter until the doomsday event that astronomers have dubbed "the big crunch."
- 2006, Ruben Curbelo et al., “Interacting phantom energy and avoidance of the big rip singularity”, in Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 23, number 5, page 1591:
- In this subsection we face the question about the possibility of evading the doomsday event in phantom models of dark energy with interaction, which are inspired in scalar-tensor theories of gravity.
- 2008 July 2, “World to end in August (maybe)”, in New Zealand Herald, retrieved 5 July 2008:
- Sceptics claim switching on the supercooled magnets could create a doomsday event that would destroy the Earth.
- A localized event causing widespread death or destruction within a specific geographical area.
- 2006, Greg Hollingshead, "Let Pynchon be Pynchon" (review of Against the Day by Thomas_Pynchon), Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2 Dec., p. D6:
- A mysterious occurrence late in the story is the historically factual Tunguska Event, a massive Siberian explosion, probably by an asteroid, in the summer of 1908: a doomsday event caused by an arrival from another realm.
- 2007 May 8, Glen Warchol, “Earthquake-proof: Capitol is ready for a rumble”, in The Salt Lake Tribune:
- An earthquake of as much as 7.3 magnitude . . . is the maximum predicted earthquake in Utah, said Johnson. "We could call that a doomsday event."
- 2006, Greg Hollingshead, "Let Pynchon be Pynchon" (review of Against the Day by Thomas_Pynchon), Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2 Dec., p. D6:
- (figuratively) A disastrous occurrence.
- 1973, Joseph Church, Understanding Your Child from Birth to Three, →ISBN, page 175:
- Protect them against molestation, but if it happens, don't overact and inflate it into a doomsday event.
- 1986 February 8, “Editorial: The flight that failed”, in The Nation, page 1:
- The Challenger explosion . . . became one big symbol for mankind. As the trauma diminishes in the weeks ahead, another meaning will emerge from the doomsday events.
- 1998 December 28, “The Year of Living Carefully: Challenges ahead for China in 1999”, in Business Week, page 30:
- A record level of foreign reserves has made it unnecessary to devalue the currency—the doomsday event that terrifies finance ministries throughout the region.
- 2007 May 22, Andy Nelesen, “Threat leads to security checks at Pulaski High School”, in Green Bay Press Gazette:
- "You just don't know if they are planning a doomsday event or not." Dunford said police worked with school officials to secure the building.