How to Use doomsayer in a Sentence

doomsayer

noun

• Don't listen to the doomsayers.
• Meanwhile, all the doomsayers have been proven wrong at every turn.
  — Corey Atad, Esquire, 3 Mar. 2017
• Don’t let the opening weekend doomsayers fool ya; cinephilia is alive and well.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But at the same time, despite what the doomsayers say, the information apocalypse is not quite nigh.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Contrary to some of the doomsayers, the great AI massacre of translator jobs has not arrived, including even at Duolingo.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 18 June 2024
• Well, those doomsayers in 1936 were wrong about the future of Social Security.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But there are good reasons to be skeptical of the globalization doomsayers.
  — Pascal Lamy, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2022
• Icahn has been a doomsayer of the economy since inflation first started rising last year.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
• Donaldson and other doomsayers, Haeussler implied, are shooting blanks in the dark.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2018
• Because despite what the doomsayers predict, e-mail isn’t going anywhere.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• As inflation cooled, the doomsayers shifted their attention to the likelihood of a recession.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024