cataclysm
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Since then, the media world has undergone a cataclysm, as billions of dollars in ad spending migrated from print to online.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 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
For me and many others, it’s impossible to consider Dec. 18, 2021 as anything more than a cataclysm that could have and should have been prevented.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
All had died from some mysterious cataclysm just under twelve million years ago in the time known to geology as the Miocene.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing cataclysm
Break It Down: Cata
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