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calamity

[kuh-lam-i-tee] / kəˈlæm ɪ ti /


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On Sunday, one club could go a long way to saving their season and edging the other towards the drop as crisis meets calamity.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 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

Then, just after the calamity of World War II, in a remote corner of eastern France, he moved Modernism’s goal posts with a single, eccentric, transcendent project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Mr. Bird carried the weight of a calamity you never get over, and a lot of other weight, too, emerging as one of the most consequential figures in the history of American sport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 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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