- a variation of Domesday Book.
Doomsday Book
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In the 2054 timeline of Doomsday Book, there are no cellphones, but thanks to a complex machine called the “net,” time travel exists.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2020
The region was first listed in the Doomsday Book in 1086.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2019
But Mr. Geithner, in a memoir published this year, wrote that the Doomsday Book did help the New York Fed deal with the collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2014
The last time two books tied for the Hugo best novel prize was in 1993, when Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and Connie Willis's Doomsday Book shared the award.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2010
Sometimes these thanes were servientes regis more literally than would suit the ambition of modern courtiers, for in Doomsday Book we find them holding such offices as Latinarius, Aurifaber, Coquus, interpreter, goldsmith, cook.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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