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
  • And the doomsayers should take a deep breath and stop saying otherwise.
    — Kendra Stanton Lee, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • 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
  • But at the same time, despite what the doomsayers say, the information apocalypse is not quite nigh.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 17 Dec. 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
  • The doomsayers of higher education are going to have to wait just a bit longer for their victory laps.
    — Derek Newton, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Because despite what the doomsayers predict, e-mail isn’t going anywhere.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Icahn has been a doomsayer of the economy since inflation first started rising last year.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But there are good reasons to be skeptical of the globalization doomsayers.
    — Pascal Lamy, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2022
  • Even so, there is little appetite for holding doomsayers accountable.
    — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Donaldson and other doomsayers, Haeussler implied, are shooting blanks in the dark.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 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
  • He’s known as a kind of technological monk, oscillating between prankster and doomsayer.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • To be sure, dollar doomsayers have consistently been proven wrong, and the greenback has surged against other top currencies during the Iran war.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • As inflation cooled, the doomsayers shifted their attention to the likelihood of a recession.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
  • Even Josephides, the tourism industry doomsayer, thinks recovery is possible.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Huang said this demonstrates the difference between a job’s task and its purpose, which often get conflated by AI doomsayers.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Bycarl Nassib, Fortune, 22 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.
    — Carolina Martinez, Fortune, 10 Jan. 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
  • 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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