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
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
This paves the way for centuries of unimaginable planetary cataclysm.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2025
Ferula’s absence was a cataclysm in the house.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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