disaster
Example Sentences
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Or is it just a warning sign that the next big disaster could be even costlier to them?
At first glance, this looks like a disaster for the climate cause.
Lifeguards, untrained in this type of disaster scenario, rushed to the scene, with some helping evacuate children from a nearby playground and others tending to the wounded.
Even when a particular engagement is a disaster, the action ultimately resolves with a moral clarity almost entirely absent from the messiness of my harried world.
It is the most fatal aviation disaster on U.S. soil in 23 years.
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