catastrophe
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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
Both companies started out with a mission of developing AI in a way that avoids catastrophe and have attracted many employees who share that mission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"It's a catastrophe, and the attacks are ongoing. We managed to leave, but others remain trapped there," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
What had looked like a catastrophe turned into a marketing coup: In a wave of nostalgia, millions of Americans rediscovered a tried-and-true product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Baba is at home. She couldn’t sleep last night. She’s afraid another catastrophe will happen. The doctor gave her pills to calm her nerves.”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
AI optimists are confident the technology is just being tested and monitored enough that humans can prevent it from consistently causing catastrophes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The August 26 disaster, one of Nepal's worst climate-linked catastrophes, brought grief but also anger.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Any beat in catastrophes would imply upside relative to guidance, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
As the Tunguska Event and Meteor Crater, Arizona, also remind us, not all impact catastrophes occurred in the early history of the solar system.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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