tragedy
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The tragedy of Jason Arday extends beyond the issues Mr. Fryer describes so well in his op-ed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Recovering the vessel's "black box" would help understand what caused the tragedy, he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Treasury said "it will learn the lessons from this tragedy".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Financial planning has typically treated a long life as a blessing and an early death as the tragedy to guard against.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Though our family tragedy had been different, Joylette, Connie, Kathy, and I knew how loss felt.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
By comparison Uganda has had nine since 2000, with officials there saying lessons learnt from past tragedies have allowed them to stop the disease ripping through the country on various occasions.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
At the retreat, no one was writing timeless concertos or the world’s greatest tragedies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Titanic” made audiences understand why historic catastrophes are also intimate tragedies.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
As it marks two-and-a-half centuries of triumphs and tragedies, slavery and freedom, civil war and world wars, surveys show the nation is pessimistic about the chances of realizing the "American Dream."
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The tragedy of the Moriori resembles many other such tragedies in both the modern and the ancient world, pitting numerous well-equipped people against few ill-equipped opponents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing tragedy
Ancient Greece - Introductory
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