tragedies

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Hers was one of many individual tragedies unfolding after quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 hit in quick succession in northern Venezuela on Wednesday evening, with La Guaira among the worst-affected regions.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

"Which means that people should share information and people should react on information to prevent tragedies like this happening in the future."

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

In both residential areas, the tragedies were met with an outpouring of shock, grief and demands for answers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Boy Moms stand alone, the main characters in what often seem like one-woman romantic tragedies of doomed longing.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

Ptolemy III Euergetes wished to borrow from Athens the original manuscripts or official state copies of the great ancient tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan