catastrophe
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Apple TV’s series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” transports the inciting action to San Francisco, whose citizens suffer through the catastrophe known as G-Day, before returning to Japan.
From Salon
Regardless of the benefits, climate-related satellite data has an uncertain financial return for many potential customers, whether they are insurers forecasting catastrophe losses, utilities gauging wildfire risks or commodity companies predicting the next harvest.
Making spectacularly wrong predictions of imminent catastrophe became something of a habit for Ehrlich over the decades.
Yet new research suggests the catastrophe also opened the door for life to rebound far sooner than scientists once believed.
From Science Daily
But like everything else, the object itself is not immune to catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times
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