catastrophe
Example Sentences
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Regardless of the benefits, climate-related satellite data has an uncertain financial return for many potential customers, whether they are insurers forecasting catastrophe losses, utilities gauging wildfire risks or commodity companies predicting the next harvest.
Making spectacularly wrong predictions of imminent catastrophe became something of a habit for Ehrlich over the decades.
Yet new research suggests the catastrophe also opened the door for life to rebound far sooner than scientists once believed.
From Science Daily
But like everything else, the object itself is not immune to catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times
"A cultural catastrophe is staring Britain in the face: the imminent loss of its pipe organs," a spokesperson said.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
