calamities

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Organizations designed to worry about future calamities can be counted on to find new calamities to worry about.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 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

“We need a greater collective sense of these ongoing calamities as the new normal,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 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

Sharpe and Mr. Gitney both felt considerable trepidation at the onset of what promised to be the most mischievous of calamities.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson