disaster
Example Sentences
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Michelle Lopez’s video “Pandemonium” began life as a live performance inside a planetarium, and the film is a meditative look at man-made disasters.
As these things often seem to happen, the disaster snowballed.
From Literature
As the war lurched from one disaster to the next, Tojo’s political enemies aligned against him.
The United States grants TPS to people deemed to be in danger if they return to their home countries because of war, natural disaster or other "extraordinary" circumstances.
From Barron's
The perils of a nuclear disaster seem relatively abstract compared to the very tangible horrors of an earthquake and tsunami.
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