Doomsday Book
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The region was first listed in the Doomsday Book in 1086.
From BBC
The archive, which has Unesco status, is ranked alongside other historical texts such as the Doomsday Book and the Death Warrant of King Charles I.
From BBC
When the New York Fed resisted turning over portions of the Doomsday Book, Wheeler ordered that Boies receive much of what he demanded, including documents dating to the 1930s.
From BusinessWeek
The Doomsday Book, as it happens, is not a book.
From New York Times
Also discussed in court on Thursday was the Fed’s secretive “Doomsday Book,” which supposedly catalogs the special emergency powers of the central bank, dating back to the Great Depression.
From New York Times
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