What's the difference between doomsday and widespread?

Doomsday


Definition:

  • (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
  • (n.) The day of the final judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
  • (2) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
  • (3) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
  • (4) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
  • (5) Hillary’s health hoax Most of the recent flurry stems directly from InfoWars, a conspiracy-fueled political site run by shock jock Alex Jones that funds itself partly through the sale of supplies necessary for doomsday prepping such as bulk vitamins and a year’s worth of long-life food.
  • (6) Thus, unlike you, we are not inclined to take the doomsday scenarios you have painted too seriously.
  • (7) The doomsday sort of threats of Mr Robb don’t help anything.” He said critics of the agreement “have got a point” about maintaining and protecting labour standards.
  • (8) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more The bombardment of rebel areas of the city continued nonstop on Monday during the day in what residents called a “doomsday” scenario.
  • (9) Under the title "Scaring children" he writes: The group most vulnerable to doomsday claims is children.
  • (10) Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise.
  • (11) • Alok Jha is a Guardian science correspondent and author of The Doomsday Handbook: 50 Ways to the End of the World (Quercus, £9.99) and How To Live Forever And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses for Science (Quercus, £9.99)
  • (12) Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term in 1956, after studying how members of a doomsday cult dealt with the aftermath of an apocalypse that did not come.
  • (13) The risk is that satisfying the capricious whims of the financial markets leads to policy error and the doomsday scenario.
  • (14) AI doomsday scenarios belong more in the realm of science fiction than science fact.
  • (15) With almost half an hour played there was a reminder of the doomsday scenario for the home side of a Shakhter away goal when Aldin Dzidic headed over Forster's bar in a rare attack.
  • (16) For doomsday believers, the toughest of times is that moment of anticlimax, when the world keeps turning and the clock ticks on.
  • (17) The Doomsday Clock has not been dismantled after the cold war: but the advance towards catastrophe need not be inexorable.
  • (18) Ahead of Sunday's premiere of The Age of Stupid , an environmental doomsday docudrama, he compared those who do not accept that human-induced global warming is occurring with Holocaust deniers, and said the evidence for global change is now beyond doubt.
  • (19) Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) Remember, you have just a few hours left to get your recalcitrant doomsday friends to sign over all their assets to you.
  • (20) But in the daily Doomsday Clock countdown of Donald Trump’s presidency we at least see the foot-soldiers of the American government machine hurling themselves bodily into its gears, unconcerned for their own careers.

Widespread


Definition:

  • (a.) Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
  • (2) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (3) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (4) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
  • (5) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
  • (6) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (7) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
  • (8) As a result, each may eventually gain widespread use after further development.
  • (9) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
  • (10) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
  • (11) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
  • (12) This study presents data supporting a selective antinociceptive role for DA at the spinal level, where it has a widespread antinociceptive influence, on cells in both the superficial and deeper dorsal horn.
  • (13) Hogan-Howe said allegations, from three whistleblowers, that there is widespread manipulation of the figures are currently being investigated.
  • (14) Granule cell destruction began early, and was widespread by 2 days in vitro, when oligodendrocyte destruction also began in treated cultures.
  • (15) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
  • (16) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
  • (17) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (18) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
  • (19) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
  • (20) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.