calamity
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In other words, a calamity for a young man with high self-esteem and considerable spy smarts.
From The Wall Street Journal â Sep. 20, 2026
George Joseph came of age during the Great Depression, a calamity that left with him with a stated desire to always have plenty of work to do.
From Los Angeles Times â Sep. 4, 2026
Some survivors of the deadly floods on the Nepal-China border ran for their lives, others narrowly missed disaster, but all were eyewitnesses to a major calamity and its aftermath.
From Barron's â Aug. 28, 2026
They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.
From MarketWatch â Jul. 12, 2026
What we had here was worse: a triple calamity fallen on the house of these poor parents.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The inability to deal with a free-kick, the failure to pick up the goalscorer in the first instance and then multiple calamities in the concession of the second goal.
From BBC â Oct. 23, 2026
Today he is 79, and wears the calamities of the past more lightly than most of us could ever imagine.
From The Wall Street Journal â Sep. 17, 2026
No away fans, calamities in Europe and Derek McInnes' Old Firm debut as a manager.
From BBC â Sep. 12, 2026
But distant suburbs have not been immune to such calamities.
From Los Angeles Times â Jul. 15, 2026
She was used to seeing their transparent silhouettes gliding down the hallways of her parents’ house, making noise in the wardrobes and appearing in people’s dreams to predict calamities or lottery prizes.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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