calamity
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They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
White House reporters, meanwhile, are preparing for the day — perhaps a day when they serve as pool reporter — when they get the call about a calamity befalling the president.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said he had mobilised the entire government machinery to respond to the calamity.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Nor did it comment on the root cause of the calamity.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Booth’s achievement is described in the Richmond papers as “the most deplorable calamity, which has ever befallen the people of the United States.”
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
The suit was brought by relatives of Samya Stumo, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, the second of two MAX calamities that together claimed 346 lives.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
The calamities each couple faces spin out into a web of favors and coercion in this tale of broken systems and characters going to great lengths to get what they want.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
To underline the obvious once more: The college football media ecosystem is not built to handle human calamities like this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
They materialize in the kitchen year after year, radiating earnest goodwill, and yet somehow leave a trail of small calamities in their wake.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025
I found myself wondering how many atoms from the same calamities out there in the universe our bodies shared.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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