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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

Shareholders are claiming the pop star failed to fulfil promises that she would be "actively building" the brand, saying her "abject dereliction of her duties" has left the company in a "state of financial calamity".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Modern historians must try to reconstruct the nature, extent and consequences of this horrific calamity from anguished and often contradictory reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

We have in the past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Mr. Rushdie has unusual calamities to look back on, but he does so with astonishing poise and a resolutely dispassionate attitude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Since this region has seen calamities in the past as well, these are certainly symptoms of a deeper underlying cause -- whether climate change or other factors," he said on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 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

Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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