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disastrous

[dih-zas-truhs, -zah-struhs] / dɪˈzæs trəs, -ˈzɑ strəs /


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The next day, the City Journal, published by the influential and conservative Manhattan Institute, ran an opinion essay headlined “George Mason University’s Disastrous President.”

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2025

Disastrous, he adds, because "the US has notoriously terrible crime data".

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

Disastrous flooding struck areas across Nuristan in 2021.

From Scientific American • Apr. 26, 2023

Disastrous as it was, that event determined my lifelong devotion to the city.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

Disastrous reports have been circulated and are now unhappily confirmed.

From Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de




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