- a variation of Domesday Book.
Doomsday Book
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In Doomsday Book, Willis answers a question many of us have wrestled with since March: During a pandemic, what can people who aren’t doctors, nurses, or policy-makers do?
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2020
The region was first listed in the Doomsday Book in 1086.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2019
The lawsuit argues that the Fed ignored the legal opinions in the Doomsday Book again in taking a 79.9 percent equity stake in A.I.G. in the fall of 2008.
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
At that time it is described in "Doomsday Book" as Cestre, and as possessing four hundred and thirty-one houses within its walls.
From Cathedral Cities of England by George Gilbert
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