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cataclysm

[kat-uh-kliz-uhm] / ˈkæt əˌklɪz əm /


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"They were doing revisions to the second version of the map of Ireland - and it's obvious why those revisions were needed. Because this huge cataclysm had swept through the country."

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Since then, the media world has undergone a cataclysm, as billions of dollars in ad spending migrated from print to online.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

If Blackstone and other lenders recover all or most of their financing, it would buttress their case that investors have overreacted to software cataclysm concerns.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

José Arcadio Buendía, trying to surprise Divine Providence in the midst of the cataclysm, was the one who least understood it.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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