cataclysm

Example Sentences

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In the wake of that cataclysm, set off by reckless lending in the U.S. housing market, Congress passed the so-called Dodd-Frank law in 2010, tightening financial regulation.

From Seattle Times

There were too brief advisories from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a body first chartered during the Civil War to advise the U.S. government on that national cataclysm.

From Scientific American

Often, astrophysicists studying these mergers hope to also see accompanying electromagnetic emissions from an event—some sparks of celestial light produced in addition to gravitational waves by the cosmic cataclysm.

From Scientific American

But one of several possible apocalypses — perhaps multiple volcanic cataclysms — turned Venus into an arid hellscape, and its plate tectonics would have shut down.

From New York Times

They traced the ancient wall, now lost to time, on which they had grown, and to Dr. Harlow offered more sentences in the book of ancient cataclysms.

From New York Times