catastrophe
Example Sentences
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If Spielberg’s earlier UFO movies gave us awe, comfort and catastrophe, this one feels like an encounter of a fourth kind: What happens when the cover story breaks?
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
For many years, researchers supported what became known as the Toba catastrophe hypothesis.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
Presidents from Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson were forced to see that Jim Crow was not just a moral catastrophe but a geopolitical liability.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
Meanwhile Philippa, knowing that “visionaries are ungovernable,” fears that Barton’s presence in her nunnery portends catastrophe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing catastrophe
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