catastrophe
Example Sentences
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Her articles cover all types of insurance: car, home, life, commercial and catastrophe coverage.
“If it’s anything other than that, the market is going to see that as a catastrophe, because we don’t really know how to price that. It’s sort of a very low-probability, high-impact event,” Tang said.
From MarketWatch
Chilean President Gabriel Boric has declared a state of catastrophe in two regions where deadly wildfires are raging.
From BBC
The sailor begins his tale of a catastrophe at sea: Hypnotized—as we are too—by the mariner’s “strange power of speech,” the wedding guest listens like a child.
Small-scale natural catastrophes in the U.S. are becoming costlier for insurers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
