disaster

Example Sentences

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Kuhn said the wildfire findings also exposed how disaster response systems can fail people who already are living without shelter.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

And just as we saw for crypto and the metaverse, plenty of other failing businesses are going to take the hasty survival fund even if it ends in disaster.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

That would be unwise and probably lead to disaster both in terms of his financial mishandling of those funds and the temptations it would put in his way.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

While horrifying, the space-obsessed couldn’t have been wholly shocked when the Columbia disaster of 2003 echoed that of Challenger; that the shuttle program had flown nearly 90 missions in the intervening 17 years barely registered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

I think maybe the compass incident, the disaster he had so nearly brought upon us that day, had changed him, made him more aware of other people.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo