catastrophe
Example Sentences
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Almost 40 years after the space shuttle Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, there are still competing theories to account for how such a catastrophe could happen.
She also maintained the national civic duty would be "an investment", boosting Swiss resilience in the case of catastrophe.
From Barron's
“In the face of this massive catastrophe, the government will be mobilizing every resource,” Lee said after visiting the injured at a local hospital.
Echoes of her personal catastrophes and softly spoken, reserved tenderness jump from the page.
From Salon
Shamik Dasgupta, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, who became an advocate for reopening schools, called the closures “a moral catastrophe.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
