disaster

Example Sentences

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When Plex took its 120 workers to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience in 2017, the disaster began the moment they arrived.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

This can lead to disaster in a lot of families, as you are finding out.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

However, the inaugural event was marred by a triple-digit heat wave and was a financial disaster.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

"It should be somewhere for other people... as a memory of the terrible disaster."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

The only potential upside to the Y2K disaster was the fact that it might disrupt the school year.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly