calamities
Example Sentences
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Discounting wars, many of which also fail to unite citizenry, vast social and economic calamities don’t admit of any solution on which majorities of Americans agree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Databases such as Court Listener have a growing list of rulings on AI-generated calamities in the US courts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Spurs' first aim will be to avoid any calamities like their red card against Crystal Palace in their previous home league game.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
“We need a greater collective sense of these ongoing calamities as the new normal,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
If this were true, then wars were not calamities into which amiable innocents were led by evil men.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
