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calamity

[kuh-lam-i-tee] / kəˈlæm ɪ ti /


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The collection of works called Disasters and Interventions transforms calmness into calamity.

From BBC

It’s a genuine calamity—there are deaths, as well as displacement of babies and the ill, including one nun recently diagnosed with tuberculosis but who had no choice but to continue caring for the kids.

From The Wall Street Journal

Everywhere, it seems, Christmas keeps close company with calamity.

From The Wall Street Journal

To underline the obvious once more: The college football media ecosystem is not built to handle human calamities like this.

From The Wall Street Journal

Others tell stories about the race to avert calamity.

From Los Angeles Times