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  • noun Plural form of doomsayer.

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Examples

  • And finally, to show that all it takes to counter the doomsayers is the arrival of an electrifying new voice, we talk to Brittany Howard, of the next band-most-likely-to, Alabama Shakes.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

  • It's tough to be a naysayer when the numbers keep getting better But the doomsayers are a hardy lot, and they have been getting a little help from central bankers When the smoke clears, the frenetic activity may well add up to a big fat nothing, especially when it comes to the stock market

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • It's tough to be a naysayer when the numbers keep getting better But the doomsayers are a hardy lot, and they have been getting a little help from central bankers When the smoke clears, the frenetic activity may well add up to a big fat nothing, especially when it comes to the stock market

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running as I write and as far as I can tell I'm still here, so it looks like the doomsayers were a little premature.

    Linux Today 2010

  • It's tough to be a naysayer when the numbers keep getting better But the doomsayers are a hardy lot, and they have been getting a little help from central bankers When the smoke clears, the frenetic activity may well add up to a big fat nothing, especially when it comes to the stock market

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • It's tough to be a naysayer when the numbers keep getting better But the doomsayers are a hardy lot, and they have been getting a little help from central bankers When the smoke clears, the frenetic activity may well add up to a big fat nothing, especially when it comes to the stock market

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • A trickle of prominent analysts are now saying what people like Alex Jones and Peter Schiff were being called doomsayers for predicting over a year ago, that the U.S. faces a crisis on the scale of the 1930's if not worse.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • A trickle of prominent analysts are now saying what people like Alex Jones and Peter Schiff were being called doomsayers for predicting over a year ago, that the U.S. faces a crisis on the scale of the 1930's if not worse.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • When Obama has served two full terms, (and he will), after his wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on all fronts -- with a canny and calculating eye to the possible -- succeeds, (it will), after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning, (they will be), after the doomsayers are all proved not just wrong but silly: let the record show that not all Americans were panicked into thinking the sky was falling.

    Frank Schaeffer: Obama's Critics Are Dead Wrong Frank Schaeffer 2010

  • When Obama has served two full terms, (and he will), after his wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on all fronts -- with a canny and calculating eye to the possible -- succeeds, (it will), after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning, (they will be), after the doomsayers are all proved not just wrong but silly: let the record show that not all Americans were panicked into thinking the sky was falling.

    Frank Schaeffer: Obama's Critics Are Dead Wrong Frank Schaeffer 2010

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