calamitous
Example Sentences
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“Malcolm in the Middle,” a popular series about a tightly knit calamitous family of weirdos and the relatively less weird child at its center, is back after 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
There has been a number of media reports, external outlining the calamitous cost that relegation would bring to Spurs.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
From winning everything domestically last season without losing a game, to being 12 points off the WSL leaders and now in a battle for a Champions League spot on the 1 February, is calamitous.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
The shift is most enduring and consequential across Europe, where the trans-Atlantic partnership that kept the peace after two calamitous world wars is at risk of unraveling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
I was such a calamitous whirlwind of stupidity!
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Vocabulary lists containing calamitous
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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