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
The world has regularly obliged by rushing to buy Treasury debt at a lower yield than before the calamity because of the risk-free securities’ haven status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
T Ihe calamity which cast the world into flame occurred early on an April morning, when all was still black night.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Databases such as Court Listener have a growing list of rulings on AI-generated calamities in the US courts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
“We need a greater collective sense of these ongoing calamities as the new normal,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
To underline the obvious once more: The college football media ecosystem is not built to handle human calamities like this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
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
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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