catastrophic
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On Monday, the public inquiry identified "catastrophic" parental and local authority failings, with a "merry-go-round" of referrals, assessments and "hand-offs" between agencies failing to stop the "predictable and preventable" attack.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
“A comedy of catastrophic proportions” is the movie’s tagline, which calls to mind Cruise’s “Tropic Thunder” character Les Grossman.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
In the 20th century, several catastrophic glacial lake outbursts took place, including a 1941 incident in Peru that killed at least 1,800 people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
In 2009, he told me, he worked on a graduate research project on exactly that chokepoint: how critical it was, how catastrophic its closure would be for the global economy.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
In the decade following the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens, scientists accurately forecasted fourteen subsequent eruptions to within days or weeks.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Vocabulary lists containing catastrophic
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Vocabulary from the Second Presidential Debate: October 9, 2016
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