catastrophe
Example Sentences
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The teenagers huddled around the table leap into action, shouting instructions and acting out the correct strategies for just one of the potential catastrophes laid out in the board game called Master of Disaster.
From Barron's
Barring a catastrophe, the benchmark index will post its third consecutive annual gain, bringing its total rise over that period to 80%.
From Barron's
What we have, instead, is a Parisian pageant, energetically rearranging how some things looked in a few precious years between the catastrophes of the two world wars.
The “Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2025,” like its many predecessors, is humming with catastrophe, a virtual Santa’s workshop of traumatic events.
In most years, these are among the costliest catastrophes for insurers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.