catastrophe

Example Sentences

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“The catastrophe insurance industry in California is incredibly broken and needs some serious repair,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Trade unions in Greece had warned that some sort of catastrophe on the railway network was waiting to happen.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the Justice Department’s latest catastrophe and its potentially massive impact on ICE’s authority to continue its courthouse arrests.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

"The situation remains extremely worrying and the risk of a humanitarian catastrophe... is real," she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The Permian players head into the locker room, which has the feel of a refugee camp, or of a makeshift hospital ward after a catastrophe.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger