Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for calamity. Search instead for calamints.
Definitions
Trivia Time
Which of these is often referred to as a calamity in news reports?

calamity

[kuh-lam-i-tee] / kəˈlæm ɪ ti /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

As Anthropic prepares to go public, Wall Street is grappling with the unprecedented question of how to price the risks associated with artificial-intelligence calamity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Their own reports repeatedly highlighted it. But they did not take any preventive steps, did not demand stringent checks and balances, nor were they prepared for a calamity they knew could occur," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Young Pavi and her twin sister, Nisha, live in a world that no longer sees the Avatar as humanity’s savior after it was devastated by a calamity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The explanation for the calamity has evolved since it struck, but appears linked to a collapsing glacier.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

T Ihe calamity which cast the world into flame occurred early on an April morning, when all was still black night.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Both men led the county through historic calamities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“We would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays,” wrote Salman Rushdie in a memoir, adapting a somewhat similar remark by Samuel Beckett.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Since this region has seen calamities in the past as well, these are certainly symptoms of a deeper underlying cause -- whether climate change or other factors," he said on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“It was these calamities that transformed my people into slavers,” Galazza Galare had told her, at the Temple of the Graces.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


Vocabulary lists containing calamity

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training