cataclysm
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Despite the scale, no known human witnessed the cataclysm.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
"They were doing revisions to the second version of the map of Ireland - and it's obvious why those revisions were needed. Because this huge cataclysm had swept through the country."
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
No deliberate cruelty wounds this dreamy girl, only carelessness and the cataclysm of her mother’s death, which signals “the last day of childhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
We, on the other hand, will be long gone by then, shriveled by some far more minor cataclysm like the fragile little primates we are.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025
As if every living thing rushes to establish a foothold before some cataclysm arrives.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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