catastrophic
Example Sentences
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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.
The county typically utilizes such cellphone blasts for evacuation warnings or orders, but Vaquero felt strongly that meteorologists were describing a situation that could quickly become catastrophic.
From Los Angeles Times
Then, when she was 12, her oldest brother Rupert, a French horn player and star music school student, suffered catastrophic brain injuries in a car crash.
From BBC
“Even flying with contingencies, you’re exposing aircraft, passengers and crew to a potential catastrophic event,” Matt Borie, Osprey’s chief intelligence officer, said.
He said he feared its impact would be catastrophic, but wouldn’t bring a political change.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
