calamities
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We will treat on-field screw-ups like national calamities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
Scotland don't just concede goals, they create calamities - the sort of slapstick defending that a player such as Vini Jr is waiting to take advantage of.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
AI bots, like them or not, are being perfected as personal AI coaches, encouragers, even therapists to counter that voice in your head, especially about climate calamities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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