disaster
Example Sentences
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Still, you avoided disaster, even if you did not meet or beat average market returns.
From MarketWatch
The bodies of five of the six Italian nationals killed in the Swiss fire disaster in Crans-Montana were being repatriated on Monday, four days after the tragedy that claimed 40 lives.
From Barron's
The disaster’s first blunt lesson is about egress.
Unamuno's first thoughts were that La Guaira was experiencing another natural disaster, 26 years ago after a landslide of biblical proportions swept away 10,000 people, many of them washed out to sea.
From Barron's
The building is "just waiting for some disaster", says House of Cards writer and peer Lord Dobbs.
From BBC
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