catastrophe

Example Sentences

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The five years since Min Aung Hlaing's coup have been a catastrophe for Myanmar.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the Justice Department’s latest catastrophe and its potentially massive impact on ICE’s authority to continue its courthouse arrests.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

"If they target that bridge, we're headed straight for a humanitarian catastrophe," warned Alwan Charafeddine, Tyre's deputy mayor.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Making spectacularly wrong predictions of imminent catastrophe became something of a habit for Ehrlich over the decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

A thought crossed Ben’s mind: These people believed that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market was unlikely precisely because it would be such a catastrophe.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis