calamity
Example Sentences
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To underline the obvious once more: The college football media ecosystem is not built to handle human calamities like this.
Others tell stories about the race to avert calamity.
From Los Angeles Times
As we wrote at the time, the project is a calamity waiting to happen.
They materialize in the kitchen year after year, radiating earnest goodwill, and yet somehow leave a trail of small calamities in their wake.
From Salon
Microplastics are the current bete noire and rightly so, but we’re still in the dark about the causal calamity of a past era’s chemical polluting.
From Los Angeles Times
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