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catastrophe

[kuh-tas-truh-fee] / kəˈtæs trə fi /


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“The catastrophe insurance industry in California is incredibly broken and needs some serious repair,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 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

The ultraviolet catastrophe led to the quantum revolution.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife