catastrophe
Example Sentences
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But like everything else, the object itself is not immune to catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times
"A cultural catastrophe is staring Britain in the face: the imminent loss of its pipe organs," a spokesperson said.
From BBC
These fleas passed the infection from rats to humans, fueling the catastrophe known as the Black Death.
From Science Daily
And he worries that his American-born friends, who have enjoyed relatively peaceful lives, don’t realize how quickly things can slide into catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times
A gripping documentary revisits Japan’s combined catastrophe in 2011 of a tsunami and a nuclear crisis—which threatened to become even worse.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
