calamity
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They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
White House reporters, meanwhile, are preparing for the day — perhaps a day when they serve as pool reporter — when they get the call about a calamity befalling the president.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Nor did it comment on the root cause of the calamity.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Soon after the calamity, he announced wide-ranging financial help to those who had lost their loved ones, properties and businesses.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
At dusk the drums of calamity began; their grave, throbbing rhythm came clearly through the night, throughout the night, each beat, each tattoo, echoing the mighty impotence of our human endeavour.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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
“We need a greater collective sense of these ongoing calamities as the new normal,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
They materialize in the kitchen year after year, radiating earnest goodwill, and yet somehow leave a trail of small calamities in their wake.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025
My life has been 101 calamities with at least half of them in the marriage department, but finally I got lucky in love, with Remy Fairley.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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