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catastrophe

[kuh-tas-truh-fee] / kəˈtæs trə fi /


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You’ve got empty skyscrapers and a massive homeless catastrophe.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Net income rose to $1.7 billion from $$395 million a year ago, primarily because of lower catastrophe losses and higher investment returns.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

"No club can survive for the long-term in this system and if that continues, catastrophe will happen," warned Portsmouth chairman Michael Eisner.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the Justice Department’s latest catastrophe and its potentially massive impact on ICE’s authority to continue its courthouse arrests.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

Each filled a hole; each supplied a missing insight, an attitude to risk which, if more prevalent, might have prevented the catastrophe.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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