catastrophe

Example Sentences

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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

Vonn did tell Vanity Fair that she’s not crazy about the idea of the catastrophe at the Winter Games being the public’s last impression of her as a skier.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas