disaster
Example Sentences
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They warn of all the unforeseeable disasters that will follow any given course of action.
How quickly marine ecosystems recovered after this disaster has been one of the most hotly debated questions in paleontology.
From Science Daily
While she addresses such weighty topics as police brutality and climate disasters in her large-scale works, making wearables provides comfort.
From Los Angeles Times
Following the natural disaster, local law enforcement was assigned the task of confiscating guns, many of which officers say were stolen or found in abandoned homes.
From Salon
Prof Theresa Betancourt, author of Shadows into Light, a book about former child soldiers, calls this "the largest humanitarian disaster since World War Two".
From BBC
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