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Which of these is often referred to as a calamity in news reports?

calamity

[kuh-lam-i-tee] / kəˈlæm ɪ ti /


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As Anthropic prepares to go public, Wall Street is grappling with the unprecedented question of how to price the risks associated with artificial-intelligence calamity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Young Pavi and her twin sister, Nisha, live in a world that no longer sees the Avatar as humanity’s savior after it was devastated by a calamity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Some survivors of the deadly floods on the Nepal-China border ran for their lives, others narrowly missed disaster, but all were eyewitnesses to a major calamity and its aftermath.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

In the end he was cleared of the most serious charges, leaving him free to write this account of the nation’s financial calamity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Events she herself witnessed foretold her cousin’s calamity.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

“We would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays,” wrote Salman Rushdie in a memoir, adapting a somewhat similar remark by Samuel Beckett.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Roberts warned of the "calamities that could arise" if presidents were able to impose their will on the Federal Reserve.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

Martha went on, speaking of different calamities magic had brought, and the gossip about the girl who could turn straw into gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff


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