calamity
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Young Pavi and her twin sister, Nisha, live in a world that no longer sees the Avatar as humanity’s savior after it was devastated by a calamity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Modern historians must try to reconstruct the nature, extent and consequences of this horrific calamity from anguished and often contradictory reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said he had mobilised the entire government machinery to respond to the calamity.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Booth’s achievement is described in the Richmond papers as “the most deplorable calamity, which has ever befallen the people of the United States.”
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
Scotland don't just concede goals, they create calamities - the sort of slapstick defending that a player such as Vini Jr is waiting to take advantage of.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
AI bots, like them or not, are being perfected as personal AI coaches, encouragers, even therapists to counter that voice in your head, especially about climate calamities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
The suit was brought by relatives of Samya Stumo, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, the second of two MAX calamities that together claimed 346 lives.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
The calamities each couple faces spin out into a web of favors and coercion in this tale of broken systems and characters going to great lengths to get what they want.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
“A thought came into my mind, that if the contents of the Essay were true, it was time some person should see these calamities to their end.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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