catastrophe
Example Sentences
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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
"The situation remains extremely worrying and the risk of a humanitarian catastrophe... is real," she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 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
But like everything else, the object itself is not immune to catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
But a terrorist attack happens now; death by heart disease is some distant, quiet catastrophe.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
