catastrophe
Example Sentences
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Trade unions in Greece had warned that some sort of catastrophe on the railway network was waiting to happen.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the Justice Department’s latest catastrophe and its potentially massive impact on ICE’s authority to continue its courthouse arrests.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026
"The situation remains extremely worrying and the risk of a humanitarian catastrophe... is real," she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Making spectacularly wrong predictions of imminent catastrophe became something of a habit for Ehrlich over the decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
With so many people watching this catastrophe unfold, the odds that any one of them would offer to help were tragically slim.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
