catastrophe
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Net income rose to $1.7 billion from $$395 million a year ago, primarily because of lower catastrophe losses and higher investment returns.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
Trade unions in Greece had warned that some sort of catastrophe on the railway network was waiting to happen.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 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
Vonn did tell Vanity Fair that she’s not crazy about the idea of the catastrophe at the Winter Games being the public’s last impression of her as a skier.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
The slightest miscue by any one of them would mean catching a crab, and catastrophe.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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