calamity
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"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 â 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 â Sep. 1, 2026
Some survivors of the deadly floods on the Nepal-China border ran for their lives, others narrowly missed disaster, but all were eyewitnesses to a major calamity and its aftermath.
From Barron's â Aug. 28, 2026
They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.
From MarketWatch â Jul. 12, 2026
As in: If JB hadn’t been acting so silly and playing around, he would have cut one lock instead of five from my head and avoided this calamity.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
We will treat on-field screw-ups like national calamities.
From The Wall Street Journal â Sep. 9, 2026
Databases such as Court Listener have a growing list of rulings on AI-generated calamities in the US courts.
From Barron's â Jun. 15, 2026
Organizations designed to worry about future calamities can be counted on to find new calamities to worry about.
From The Wall Street Journal â May 20, 2026
The calamities each couple faces spin out into a web of favors and coercion in this tale of broken systems and characters going to great lengths to get what they want.
From Los Angeles Times â Apr. 17, 2026
The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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