catastrophe
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The video made him realise "that we may also have come close to a catastrophe".
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
He said he feared a new Nakba -- "catastrophe" in Arabic -- referring to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people at the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Through Mr. Smith’s skillful use of this and many other primary sources, Mignon Langnas joins her fellow diarists Anne Frank and Victor Klemperer as eyewitnesses to catastrophe and witnesses for posterity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
On Monday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham warned the UK faces an "economic catastrophe and moral failure" due to high levels of youth unemployment.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The slightest change could be a catastrophe because we had nothing.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
According to Jordan, the results demonstrate that the effects of catastrophes are rarely straightforward.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
He also called for "speedy incident reporting, classification, and reporting protocols so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos, with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Any beat in catastrophes would imply upside relative to guidance, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It might be a good idea for us to understand comets and collisions and catastrophes a little better than we do.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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