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catastrophic

adjective as in destructive

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Decades ago the Jewish state saved Iran from catastrophic ruin from water mismanagement.

Another approach provided no protection against catastrophic cable failures and plunging elevators.

The family business comes with the potential of catastrophic accidents on the track.

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“This is a catastrophic loss for the state of California because they just completely failed to do anything to manage this risk,” said her attorney, Lawrance Bohm of Bohm Law Group.

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“These kinds of tools will just speed up things,” said Logan Graham, who runs the Anthropic team that tests for catastrophic risks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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