catastrophe
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Alexander De Croo, head of the UN development agency, said there was a risk of "humanitarian catastrophe" if Russian attacks cut off access to power and water.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Watching Petit step onto the wire lets us see them differently, not as the site of catastrophe but as the setting for something beautiful and absurdly daring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The August 26 catastrophe, a tsunami-like flood that began on the China-Nepal border, killed more than 1,400 people and left some 5,600 missing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ones I’ve spoken to since Hugging Face have left the subject of mass job loss and are on to catastrophe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
From Bartolome de Las Casas on, Europeans have known that their arrival brought about a catastrophe for Native Americans.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Any beat in catastrophes would imply upside relative to guidance, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Economic losses from natural catastrophes worldwide are estimated to have reached $100 billion in the first half of this year, reinsurance group Swiss Re said Tuesday, a sharp decline from the period last year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The movie is seeded with nods to Green Day lore, scripted over long sessions riffing with the band over its tour catastrophes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
His belief was that from time to time the Earth experienced global catastrophes in which groups of creatures were wiped out.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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