catastrophe

Example Sentences

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A very different scenario appears in a phenomenon known as Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe.

From Science Daily

"It would be a catastrophe. We're going to have to halt projects that were put into the budget by the previous administration, things that maybe were 'nice to have', but we can't afford them."

From BBC

The slightest change could be a catastrophe because we had nothing.

From Literature

The hope of publishing this research is just that—a call to action as, Shah said, this “humanitarian catastrophe is not inevitable.”

From Barron's

"This could have been a huge environmental catastrophe."

From BBC