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Catastrophe comes from a Greek word meaning what?

catastrophe

[kuh-tas-truh-fee] / kəˈtæs trə fi /


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He said he feared a new Nakba -- "catastrophe" in Arabic -- referring to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people at the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Through Mr. Smith’s skillful use of this and many other primary sources, Mignon Langnas joins her fellow diarists Anne Frank and Victor Klemperer as eyewitnesses to catastrophe and witnesses for posterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"If there's no sewage, in three days there'll be an epidemiological catastrophe," said Gorkutsenko.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

On Monday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham warned the UK faces an "economic catastrophe and moral failure" due to high levels of youth unemployment.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Each filled a hole; each supplied a missing insight, an attitude to risk which, if more prevalent, might have prevented the catastrophe.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

According to Jordan, the results demonstrate that the effects of catastrophes are rarely straightforward.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

In June, Anthropic published steps it thinks governments should take to mitigate potential catastrophes from AI, including biological resilience measures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

He also called for "speedy incident reporting, classification, and reporting protocols so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos, with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump.

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


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