disaster
Example Sentences
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For someone planning to draw income within a few years, it can be a portfolio disaster.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
RuPaul’s affection for everything inane, disgusting and gloriously stupid lends itself perfectly to a disaster spoof like “Stop! That! Train!.”
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
Pratt, the onetime star of MTV’s “The Hills,” used his campaign to express his anger not just over the Palisades disaster but also the city’s handling of homelessness, crime and other issues.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Indonesia's national disaster agency, meanwhile, instructed officials in the North Sulawesi capital, Manado, northern Gorontalo province and the Sangihe islands "to immediately direct their residents to evacuate in an orderly manner to higher ground".
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Navy never realized that the Indianapolis was overdue at its next port of call and never sent a rescue party to the disaster site.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing disaster
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