calamities

Example Sentences

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Organizations designed to worry about future calamities can be counted on to find new calamities to worry about.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The suit was brought by relatives of Samya Stumo, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, the second of two MAX calamities that together claimed 346 lives.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Despite their present challenges, Cebu locals like Ms Estalicas and Mr Pareja are hopeful that they could survive the earthquake, as they did after Haiyan and the calamities before it.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

Marty’s world is a heightened version of the discord we’re experiencing these days, but the calamities and the characters’ detachment from them don’t feel far from our reality.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025

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