calamity
Example Sentences
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In keeping with this trippy, but utterly wonderful, championship, Duhan van der Merwe is also out, a loss that would have been seen as an absolute calamity not that long ago.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
He also said that the government had declared a "state of calamity" in Juiz de Fora.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
“The worst calamity that everyone had in mind didn’t happen,” said Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at Payden & Rygel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
As Mr. Coyle relates, one key to the miners’ survival and sanity seems to have been that, when the calamity engulfed them, no one took charge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
The Tijuana horsemen, long accustomed to calamity, wrote off the horses, picked up, and went on.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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