disaster
Example Sentences
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Finally, where we were our disaster response had kind of completed itself.
From BBC
In this triptych, Marat’s martyrdom is a muted centerpiece between grand hope and grander disaster.
“What Cuba is going through—a phenomenon I call demographic hollowing out—is nothing less than a humanitarian disaster only seen in countries in armed conflict,” he said.
He knew Joshua was the man under pressure here: If the former Brit wonder didn’t mush Paul into the ropes, it would be considered an embarrassing disaster.
Michael Clark was representing the Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Lagoa, Portugal, when disaster struck and his shoe came off during the first 100 metres.
From BBC
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