calamity
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Soon after the calamity, he announced wide-ranging financial help to those who had lost their loved ones, properties and businesses.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
In keeping with this trippy, but utterly wonderful, championship, Duhan van der Merwe is also out, a loss that would have been seen as an absolute calamity not that long ago.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Leading a mule train into the tunnels, Ondro faces a calamity that enters the history books.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
As Mr. Coyle relates, one key to the miners’ survival and sanity seems to have been that, when the calamity engulfed them, no one took charge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
About five years before, most of his subjects had fallen before a terrible calamity.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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