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cataclysm

[kat-uh-kliz-uhm] / ˈkæt əˌklɪz əm /


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If Blackstone and other lenders recover all or most of their financing, it would buttress their case that investors have overreacted to software cataclysm concerns.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

We, on the other hand, will be long gone by then, shriveled by some far more minor cataclysm like the fragile little primates we are.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

Throughout 150 years of boosterism, through our latest cataclysm of fires, the palm tree image makes visual geolocation instant and easy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

A seismic voice, a volcanic breath, the roar of a cataclysm broke out in the center of the crowd with a great potential of expansion.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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