disaster
Example Sentences
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The wider impact of the disaster is contested and difficult to determine.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
The central question is whether the Eastlands should have been prepared or if this was a natural disaster beyond all reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
“Homelessness is both a disaster in itself, and a situation in which most every month welcomes the arrival of a new disaster,” Kuhn said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
And just as we saw for crypto and the metaverse, plenty of other failing businesses are going to take the hasty survival fund even if it ends in disaster.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
“But I think we need to put it out of our minds. Maybe Dr. Morales has just watched too many disaster movies.”
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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