catastrophic
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On Wednesday, there was a palpable sense of relief in Dubai, Doha and Kuwait that these Gulf cities avoided potentially catastrophic Iranian retaliatory strikes on their own power plants and water desalination facilities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The result of this miscalculation may very well be catastrophic.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 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
But economic research indicates catastrophic job loss like the kind Holland feared happens at an industry level, not as a broader, economy-wide effect.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Hence the effect on society is catastrophic when state government collapses, as happened in Britain upon the removal of Roman troops, administrators, and coinage between A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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