disaster
Example Sentences
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More than thirty homes were destroyed after "landslide material buried residential areas, causing fatalities and affecting local residents", Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said in a statement.
From BBC
When Arco swipes his sister’s flying apparatus for a secret midnight soar, however, he falls into the year 2075 and a tech-dependent Earth world barely hanging on in the face of incessant weather disasters.
From Los Angeles Times
Acceptable reasons for a refund include marriage, divorce or spousal death; work stoppage or reduction; loss of income-producing property, such as from a disaster; loss of pension income; or an employer settlement payment.
Transport Minister Oscar Puente said it was "reassuring" that investigators had a working hypothesis on a possible cause just days after the disaster.
From Barron's
Our wild imaginations and real-world confrontations with disaster, whether wrought by humans or Mother Nature, only solidify our more anxious interpretations of preparedness.
From Salon
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