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catastrophe

[kuh-tas-truh-fee] / kəˈtæs trə fi /


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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.

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The “Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2025,” like its many predecessors, is humming with catastrophe, a virtual Santa’s workshop of traumatic events.

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In most years, these are among the costliest catastrophes for insurers.

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In Hollywood depictions of catastrophe, people tend to panic, scream and clog the exits.

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This included during the onset of the pandemic, an erratically unfolding and socially fracturing catastrophe about which, naturally, Erikson had lots to say.

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