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cataclysm

[kat-uh-kliz-uhm] / ˈkæt əˌklɪz əm /


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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

Banks and bankers were often blamed for the economic cataclysm of the Great Depression, when, during Dillinger’s wild year, more than 25 percent of Americans were unemployed.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2024

It’s safe to say this is going to be a cataclysm.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone