calamity
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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
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“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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