How to Use doomsayer in a Sentence
doomsayer
noun- Don't listen to the doomsayers.
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Meanwhile, all the doomsayers have been proven wrong at every turn.
—Corey Atad, Esquire, 3 Mar. 2017
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Don’t let the opening weekend doomsayers fool ya; cinephilia is alive and well.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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But if the climate doomsayers are to be proved wrong, a clean-energy system must be part of the solution.
—The Economist, 13 July 2017
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The waifs and radicals may be gone, but the atmosphere in the Flore and beyond is more highbrow than the doomsayers imply.
—The Economist, 28 Apr. 2018
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Don’t listen to the doomsayers: Social Security is healthy today, and the U.S. is rich enough to improve it — if the wealthy pay their fair share.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
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But at the same time, despite what the doomsayers say, the information apocalypse is not quite nigh.
—James Vincent, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2018
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Our financial system is treated as fragile creature by many, and in days like these, all of the doomsayers who have felt unloved have their moment in the sun.
—Zachary Karabell, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
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If the suit is dead, as doomsayers never tire of proclaiming, then late-night television must be dressed for its glamorous wake.
—Guy Trebay, New York Times, 2 May 2017
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The election could still end 2017 on a low note for a Europe that has largely defied the doomsayers, both on the political and economic fronts.
—Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2017
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Despite so much in its economy that looks so deeply rotten, China may yet emerge from its boom stronger than the doomsayers predict.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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Eliot was a mystic doomsayer whose verse was torn, as if by shrapnel, with fragments of misanthropy and heartbreak.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
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These doomsayers have the luxury of being able to wait a long time for a payoff, but most Americans don’t have that time or capital.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
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Well, those doomsayers in 1936 were wrong about the future of Social Security.
—Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
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The late economist famously bet doomsayer Paul Ehrlich in 1980 that the prices for five metals wouldn’t increase over a decade, even if the world’s population grew.
—WSJ, 26 July 2023
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The inherent conundrum of the Y2K debate is that those on both ends of the spectrum — from naysayers to doomsayers — can claim that the outcome proved their predictions correct.
—Francine Uenuma, Time, 30 Dec. 2019
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Surging salaries from Prague to Budapest may not pose the threat to eastern Europe’s cheap labor model that some doomsayers predict.
—Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2017
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But there are good reasons to be skeptical of the globalization doomsayers.
—Pascal Lamy, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2022
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Icahn has been a doomsayer of the economy since inflation first started rising last year.
—Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
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Donaldson and other doomsayers, Haeussler implied, are shooting blanks in the dark.
—Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2018
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Because despite what the doomsayers predict, e-mail isn’t going anywhere.
—Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
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This may be fodder for automotive doomsayers who count world vehicle debuts as the most meaningful metric in the health of auto shows.
—Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
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Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
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As inflation cooled, the doomsayers shifted their attention to the likelihood of a recession.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
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Two paths lie before us: one to the dystopian visions of our sci-fi novels, apocalyptic movies, and pessimistic doomsayers; the other to a positive, sustainable world.
—Time, 3 Aug. 2023
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The folks happy to see 2023 in the rearview mirror join a long line of Hollywood doomsayers who have taken a perverse satisfaction in forecasts of imminent catastrophe.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
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Faced with consumers’ remarkable resilience this year, many doomsayers ascribed it to excess savings, amassed during the pandemic, that would inevitably run out.
—Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
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Faced with consumers’ remarkable resilience this year, many doomsayers ascribed it to excess savings, amassed during the pandemic, that would inevitably run out.
—Ann Skeet, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
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The doomsayers who predicted the literal demise of the U.S. restaurant industry after Covid—especially at the fine dining level—proved myopic in the extreme.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
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Getty Images Amidst a robust U.S. economy, the usual doomsayers are notably silent.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
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