How to Use prepper in a Sentence

prepper

noun
Definition of preppernext
  • So, the chef, the cook, the assembler, and the ingredient prepper all get in the same room to stop the back-and-forth.
    — Shane Snow, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • You’ve been reported in the past to be a doomsday prepper.
    — Time, 21 June 2023
  • In many ways, Elon Musk is the world’s biggest doomsday prepper.
    — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Amazon This would make a great gift for cyclists, campers, and preppers.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In the game, Bill antagonizes Ellie after Joel and his ward meet up with the prepper.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
  • If Grasso is a kind of fire prepper, his neighbor Rose Wiley, 89, is among those who try not to worry too much.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • But just in case those crops fail, Red Planet settlers would want enough in storage to make a doomsday prepper seem ill equipped.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • The air fryer and pressure cooker combo—a meal prepper’s dream.
    — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2021
  • These are the decisions of a doomsday prepper, not a climate leader.
    — Ketan Joshi, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • These skills are helpful in a disaster, or just to satisfy a yearning to survive off the grid, or, in the case of preppers, a doomsday event.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The Field Museum's lead fossil prepper Aikiko Shinya spotted the first bits of the animal, which was named after her in part.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2016
  • The ultimate in prepper cool is going off the electrical grid.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The meal prepper on your list will appreciate the head start this box filled with succulent proteins gives them.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022
  • There are some firms that build bunkers to install in or around homes, and there are also several prepper camps around the nation where people pay a fee to escape to.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2020
  • With nuclear war now more likely than at any point since the peak of the Cold War, super-rich doomsday preppers have purchased deluxe bunkers with swimming pools and gun ranges.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 May 2024
  • And seriously, what is up with Matt's doomsday-prepper beard?
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • This particular aisle, with traditional meats in all forms, feels like it was made for a doomsday prepper.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • There’s tons of great stuff on the platform, but one of the most unique shows is Little Lion’s Den, a bizarre hybrid of doomsday prepper paranoia, psychedelic drugs, and puppets.
    — PCMAG, 22 June 2022
  • While the seller of this sprawling compound, who wishes to remain anonymous, might not be a doomsday prepper, all of the safe rooms and spy-like features in his residence serve a purpose.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 17 May 2022
  • Interesting like the role as a woman battling doomsday preppers in Drew Mylrea’s sci-fi thriller Last Survivors.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a big difference between being a prepper and being prepared.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Apocalypse preppers, religious doomsday Redditors and writers have all, at some point, seized on the idea.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Pykhtina said her Facebook feed is now filled with prepper pages, how-to lists for packing a go-bag, keeping the car filled with gas, surviving without electricity.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The brother of Idaho mom Lori Vallow, who was charged in connection with the murders of her children after falling in love with a doomsday prepper, talks about family secrets and tragedies.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The coronavirus pandemic made tech preppers feel vindicated, for a while.
    — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Overnight oats Overnight oats are growing in popularity for meal preppers due to their simplicity and health benefits.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Over the past decade or so, a small but spirited subculture of prepper types has been hoarding nickels as a contingency plan against inflation Armageddon.
    — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In his book Survival of the Richest, media theorist Douglass Rushkoff describes meeting with a group of billionaire preppers who bombarded him with questions about how best to configure their bunkers to survive the end times.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The third episode, for instance, spotlights the relationship between misanthropic doomsday prepper Bill and gregarious lover of the finer things Frank.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This is a show with the emotional tenor of doomsday preppers and dystopian survivalists, albeit without the cockeyed conspiracy theories.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024

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