end-time

noun

often attributive
: the time of the prophesied end of the world : armageddon

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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 Given that live programming, particularly live sports, has traditionally been the bread and butter of cable television, could expanded live offerings on streaming services be end-time for cable? Justin Klawans, theweek, 2 Feb. 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 The rationale is budgetary, but Benzion, despite his secularism, exploits the irony of the occasion to try out the kind of end-times ethnonationalism that will soon drive Religious Zionism and the settler movement. Blum, for his part, has done his best to leave seminarian attachments behind. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024 But growing complaints from actual Cybertruck owners online say the rugged, all-electric, end-times enduring vehicle may have an unexpected problem: water. Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of end-time was in 1917

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“End-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/end-time. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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