cataclysm

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If Blackstone and other lenders recover all or most of their financing, it would buttress their case that investors have overreacted to software cataclysm concerns.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

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

Banks and bankers were often blamed for the economic cataclysm of the Great Depression, when, during Dillinger’s wild year, more than 25 percent of Americans were unemployed.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2024

Every glade and dale seemed to have just completed some massive cataclysm.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson