disaster
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"The disaster we are facing is massive," President Jose Raul Mulino said upon arriving in one of the affected areas.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Haldeman and John Ehrlichman at Camp David in 1973, while 12 years earlier John F. Kennedy received counsel there from Eisenhower after the Bay of Pigs disaster.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
About 4.6 million people felt moderate to severe shaking as a result of the quake, according to the US Geological Survey, which has said that the effects of the disaster were "likely to be widespread".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
It’s just an epic disaster on so many fronts.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
After all, she apparently couldn’t leave for more than five minutes without Molly breaking rules and making a mess of things, or Boaz flirting with disaster.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Many think of corporate naming in the context of disasters like Tronc, the notoriously short-lived rebrand of media conglomerate Tribune Publishing, or Reebok’s Incubus, a shoe named for a mythological demon that attacks sleeping women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It is the latest in a litany of disasters to befall one of the most benighted industrial cities in Europe, repeatedly blanketed in lethal smoke from similar blazes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The accident is one of the deadliest air disasters in Nigeria in recent years.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
That has left them vulnerable to strains from unplanned outages, natural disasters or conflicts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
And after that, there were no more disasters.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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