catastrophic

Example Sentences

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What he saw was "catastrophic", he said, and in many places, "all that's left of these houses is a tin roof lying on the ground".

From BBC

Parts of Australia will face catastrophic fire conditions on Friday, as heatwaves hit most of the country.

From BBC

Millions of Australians were Thursday warned to prepare for a stifling heatwave stoking the risk of "catastrophic" bushfires across swathes of the country.

From Barron's

Americans have seen this pattern before, and the consequences were catastrophic.

From Salon

For more than a decade, Tegmark’s organization, the Future of Life Institute, had been trying to raise the alarm that advanced AI could be catastrophic to humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal