catastrophe

The recent run of luck and strong returns raises an important question, he said: “What happens when the inevitable pendulum swings back and even more expensive catastrophe activity returns?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Those are scenarios of varying levels of catastrophe, and that’s kind of how I’ve been seeing speculative fiction lately.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

An incinerator scheme to help clean up the ecological catastrophe turned out to be a vast multi-million-dollar scam that included a "ghost" incinerator for the capital Tirana that was never built.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

"But the money was meant to avoid a civilian catastrophe - that is the only reason."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In and of itself it was a remarkable fact: The catastrophe was foreseeable, yet only a handful noticed.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

There is still plenty of Dickensian melodrama, especially when Livia relates the sequence of catastrophes that account for her transformation from a virtuoso with dreams of stardom to a small-town piano teacher and farmer’s wife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He also called for "speedy incident reporting, classification, and reporting protocols so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Florida’s orange growers have faced a number of catastrophes over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

That didn’t stop catastrophes like the 2018 fire in the Sierra foothills that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

When you’re struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss