calamity
Example Sentences
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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
Nor did it comment on the root cause of the calamity.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
To paraphrase some anonymous wag, never let a cross-cultural calamity go to waste.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Historic freezes in 1894 and 1895 nearly eradicated the industry, its first and last real brush with old-world calamity.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
We would probably have gone on and discussed the war and agreed that it was in reality a calamity for civilization, and perhaps would have been better avoided.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Vocabulary lists containing calamity
The Crossover
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