catastrophic

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In 2009, he told me, he worked on a graduate research project on exactly that chokepoint: how critical it was, how catastrophic its closure would be for the global economy.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

But premiums also cover catastrophic events like hospital stays after a car crash or cancer treatment.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

And economic research indicates catastrophic job loss like the kind Holland feared happens at an industry level, not as a broader, economy-wide effect.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Plus, without mechanisms to make any war catastrophic for Beijing, one expert warns, failure to deter it in the Taiwan Strait could plunge the world into chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

In the month and a half between the first signs and the catastrophic eruption, hundreds of scientists worked to try to understand what was happening.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone