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Catastrophe comes from a Greek word meaning what?

catastrophe

[kuh-tas-truh-fee] / kəˈtæs trə fi /


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For Haeder in Chemnitz, the vote was "an absolute catastrophe – completely amateurish".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In his opinion, today’s biggest market risk may be complacency rather than catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Most modern comedies about the environmental catastrophe like “Don’t Look Up” and “Downsizing” struggle because the truth underneath them is just too awful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The experiment was designed to mimic a catastrophe that occurred nearly 2,000 years ago in Herculaneum, an ancient Roman city in Italy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The slightest change could be a catastrophe because we had nothing.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

There is still plenty of Dickensian melodrama, especially when Livia relates the sequence of catastrophes that account for her transformation from a virtuoso with dreams of stardom to a small-town piano teacher and farmer’s wife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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

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

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

Only the thought of the possible catastrophes that might befall such an expedition, and of sustaining damage to my travelling suit, persuaded me to content myself with sitting here on this bench.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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