catastrophe
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"I think I woke up about five o'clock in the morning... I quickly called my mum, and she said they were all good. The catastrophe hadn't quite hit then," she said.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
The suspected failure of a cooling system, and the introduction of heat to a pressurized tank with MMA, planted the seeds of a potential catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
He called for a "swift response", including strengthening the capacity of staff to prevent Ituri "from descending into catastrophe".
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Low catastrophe losses won’t be a continuing benefit, but further improvement for the insurer still seems possible from here, Kett adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
One evocative idea is that it was a cosmic catastrophe, the explosion of a nearby star—a supernova like the one that produced the Crab Nebula.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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