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disaster

[dih-zas-ter, -zah-ster] / dɪˈzæs tər, -ˈzɑ stər /


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In an interview with CNN on Wednesday evening, Netanyahu said the stabbed pilot, passengers and second crew had "managed to prevent a 9/11 disaster".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Gargash praised the captain, Smit Machchhar, as a hero for fighting to help prevent a disaster even as he was being attacked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

A public inquiry found the fire was avoidable and set out how a chain of failures across government and the private sector led to the disaster.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Proposition TE seeks to exempt Palisades fire victims from paying the tax if they sell their home within five years of the disaster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

They were just some of the millions of Japanese citizens who had begun to find closure after the tsunami, to take the lessons of the disaster and move forward.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

It is paying interest to this day: “It is astonishing to think of the wars, revolutions, religious revolt, pandemics and other disasters this bond has survived,” the author marvels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the same time, however, companies make multibillion-dollar decisions based not on the possibility of wars or natural disasters, but rather on even demand with a multiyear, and sometimes multidecade, horizon.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The supermodel set up Fashion for Relief to help victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and went on to front further campaigns for disasters and causes around the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Myanmar's civil war often makes the scale of natural disasters hard for humanitarian organisations to judge, as well as complicating relief efforts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

And after that, there were no more disasters.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl




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