natural disaster
Example Sentences
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In most U.S. states, Indiana included, when a healthy tree falls onto a neighbor’s property during a storm or other natural disaster, each property owner is responsible for the damage on their own land.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
The central question is whether the Eastlands should have been prepared or if this was a natural disaster beyond all reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
It noted the fires were the third-worst natural disaster in American history in terms of insured losses, at $40 billion.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Because, for veterans of modern warfare, the question isn’t how to come to grips with something that befell us in the manner of a natural disaster.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026
Why wouldn’t the same principle apply in the case of a devastating natural disaster, such as a plague?
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
