catastrophe

Example Sentences

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“I’m worried that a natural or manmade catastrophe stops the resupply ships coming from Earth, causing the colony to die out,” Musk said on Monday.

From MarketWatch

“I’m worried that a natural or manmade catastrophe stops the resupply ships coming from Earth, causing the colony to die out,” Musk said on Monday.

From MarketWatch

A very different scenario appears in a phenomenon known as Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe.

From Science Daily

"It would be a catastrophe. We're going to have to halt projects that were put into the budget by the previous administration, things that maybe were 'nice to have', but we can't afford them."

From BBC

The slightest change could be a catastrophe because we had nothing.

From Literature