catastrophe
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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
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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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