calamities
Example Sentences
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Today he is 79, and wears the calamities of the past more lightly than most of us could ever imagine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
No away fans, calamities in Europe and Derek McInnes' Old Firm debut as a manager.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
Organizations designed to worry about future calamities can be counted on to find new calamities to worry about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
