cataclysm

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If Blackstone and other lenders recover all or most of their financing, it would buttress their case that investors have overreacted to software cataclysm concerns.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

No deliberate cruelty wounds this dreamy girl, only carelessness and the cataclysm of her mother’s death, which signals “the last day of childhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

We, on the other hand, will be long gone by then, shriveled by some far more minor cataclysm like the fragile little primates we are.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

Throughout 150 years of boosterism, through our latest cataclysm of fires, the palm tree image makes visual geolocation instant and easy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

She could reprieve him from the cataclysm he thought had befallen him.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks