disaster
Example Sentences
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For decades, wildfires were considered a reactive emergency, but more disaster experts are looking for ways to apply proactive messaging, deployment and warning systems to fires — systems more akin to hurricane preparedness.
From Los Angeles Times
The Harvard fellow was a scholar on treating disaster zone victims, but had been sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in Tehran for espionage charges he denied.
Charlotte Hennessy, whose father Jimmy died in the 1989 disaster, said she felt Mahmood, who declined to meet relatives in recent weeks, was being "obstructive" over a proposed amendment about the security services.
From BBC
When the tenant left, “the place was a disaster,” Jim Kennedy said, especially the bathrooms.
That is then weighed against the cost of a potential disaster—including compensation for families and reputational damage—and the lost revenue from canceling, Brito said.
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