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tragedy

[traj-i-dee] / ˈtrædʒ ɪ di /


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For Thales Miola, a lawyer at Instituto Preservar, "the costs of climate damage should not fall solely on society and on those who lost everything in the tragedy."

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Whatever that pain, that loss, that tragedy was, I managed to spin it like an alchemist into something passionate. And it’s been increasingly so since.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The tragedy of a $4 basket of chips is obviously not the $4.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

“She has inspired millions. All for nothing now,” Ms. Gammon laments, though she finds something fearfully inevitable in the tragedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

This ecological tragedy was restaged in miniature countless times after the Agricultural Revolution.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

A group of the enslaved Athenians devise a plan to stage “Medea” and “The Trojan Women,” a pair of tragedies by Euripides that deal with vengeance and the costs of war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Elevated surf and rip currents as a result of Marie are arriving following a series of tragedies and increased rescues along Southern California beaches this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Then there are the tragedies that made her political career possible.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

At the retreat, no one was writing timeless concertos or the world’s greatest tragedies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The personal tragedies and controversies in Thomas Jefferson’s life played out as America entered a new era of nationhood.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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