calamities

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Discounting wars, many of which also fail to unite citizenry, vast social and economic calamities don’t admit of any solution on which majorities of Americans agree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

Databases such as Court Listener have a growing list of rulings on AI-generated calamities in the US courts.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

The calamities in the past two years, including a fatal magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2024, have devastated the county's tourism industry, Ms Yang said.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

We can empathize with the calamities that prompted these characters to take such foolish chances, but we would never make those choices ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

She was used to seeing their transparent silhouettes gliding down the hallways of her parents’ house, making noise in the wardrobes and appearing in people’s dreams to predict calamities or lottery prizes.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende