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doomsday scenario
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈduːmz.deɪ sɪˌnɑː.ri.əʊ/ us /ˈduːmz.deɪ səˌner.i.oʊ/
a description of possible events in the future that imagines the end of the world or a lot of damage, difficulty, and destruction:
A doomsday scenario is not out of the question.
Ecologists predict a doomsday scenario if global warming continues to increase at the present rate.
Each side was predicting a doomsday scenario if the other won the election.
Goldberg predicts that some firms will incur serious losses, but thinks that the doomsday scenario is unlikely to materialize.
Some of the doomsday scenarios that the experts have described are almost too terrible to contemplate.
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