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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

The economic cataclysm caused by artificial intelligence may never come.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 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

This paves the way for centuries of unimaginable planetary cataclysm.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2025

According to the Big Bang theory, the universe came into being in one single moment—a cosmic cataclysm that gave birth to black holes, brown dwarfs, matter and dark matter, energy and dark energy.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon