disaster
Example Sentences
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In the small towns of Kerr County, Mystic is but one piece of a disaster that claimed 119 friends and neighbors from the banks of a river that had no sirens to warn them.
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
That would be unwise and probably lead to disaster both in terms of his financial mishandling of those funds and the temptations it would put in his way.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Roads were often closed during a disaster, which was why his father liked to be at ground zero beforehand.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Vocabulary lists containing disaster
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Oh, My Stars! A Solstice Sampler
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Calamity, Catastrophe, and Crisis: Disaster Words
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