calamity

"Their own reports repeatedly highlighted it. But they did not take any preventive steps, did not demand stringent checks and balances, nor were they prepared for a calamity they knew could occur," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Young Pavi and her twin sister, Nisha, live in a world that no longer sees the Avatar as humanity’s savior after it was devastated by a calamity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The explanation for the calamity has evolved since it struck, but appears linked to a collapsing glacier.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

T Ihe calamity which cast the world into flame occurred early on an April morning, when all was still black night.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“We would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays,” wrote Salman Rushdie in a memoir, adapting a somewhat similar remark by Samuel Beckett.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Mr. Rushdie has unusual calamities to look back on, but he does so with astonishing poise and a resolutely dispassionate attitude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Since this region has seen calamities in the past as well, these are certainly symptoms of a deeper underlying cause -- whether climate change or other factors," he said on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Sharpe and Mr. Gitney both felt considerable trepidation at the onset of what promised to be the most mischievous of calamities.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson