calamity
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They plan for calamity and how they’d bounce back.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
White House reporters, meanwhile, are preparing for the day — perhaps a day when they serve as pool reporter — when they get the call about a calamity befalling the president.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
A more immediate calamity could be fertilizer shortages as India, where two-thirds of the population is still rural, heads into its June-July planting season timed to the summer monsoon, Pramanik says.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Even for those not managing money, the financial and emotional rewards from predicting a calamity are large.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
About five years before, most of his subjects had fallen before a terrible calamity.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
They materialize in the kitchen year after year, radiating earnest goodwill, and yet somehow leave a trail of small calamities in their wake.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025
“A thought came into my mind, that if the contents of the Essay were true, it was time some person should see these calamities to their end.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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