calamity
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In other words, a calamity for a young man with high self-esteem and considerable spy smarts.
From The Wall Street Journal â Sep. 20, 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
They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.
From MarketWatch â Jul. 12, 2026
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said he had mobilised the entire government machinery to respond to the calamity.
From BBC â Jun. 9, 2026
I was broadcasting across the scatterfeed, going, helplessly, We enter a time of calamity!
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
Today he is 79, and wears the calamities of the past more lightly than most of us could ever imagine.
From The Wall Street Journal â Sep. 17, 2026
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
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
And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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