catastrophic

Example Sentences

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The filmmaker has teased it’s a “brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions,” promising news for fans who wondered why Cruise never made another movie like “Tropic Thunder.”

From Los Angeles Times

On Tuesday, the foreign ministers of 10 countries, including France and the United Kingdom, urged Israel to "guarantee access" to aid in the Gaza Strip, where they said the humanitarian situation remains "catastrophic".

From Barron's

“On Christmas Eve, I experienced a catastrophic financial loss in the stock market. The loss happened suddenly and completely changed my circumstances overnight,” the page read.

From MarketWatch

Who has time or energy for melting ice caps and mass extinction when day-to-day life is so catastrophic?

From Salon

They added that the humanitarian situation in Gaza remained "catastrophic" and called on Israel's government to ensure INGOs were able to operate "in a sustained and predictable way".

From BBC