Thesaurus / tragedy
FEEDBACKHow to use tragedy in a sentence
Right now we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons.
MY DAD SERVED IN WWII — HE WAS A HERO, NOT A LOSERPETER ROSENSTEINSEPTEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEThe skit compares the Death Star’s destruction to the heinous tragedy that befell America nineteen years ago.
AMID GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, ‘MULAN’ IS A LITMUS TEST FOR LOYALTIESRHHACKETTFORTUNESEPTEMBER 9, 2020FORTUNEThe video of Jacob Blake’s shooting feels like a repeat of the same kind of tragedy, showing an officer repeatedly shooting Blake in the back.
VIOLENT PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE ’60S AND ’90S CHANGED PUBLIC OPINIONGERMAN LOPEZAUGUST 28, 2020VOXThe pandemic has been an unprecedented event on a truly planetary scale, one that has sadly given people all over the world a unifying human experience through tragedy.
SOCIAL DISTANCING FROM THE STARSEMILY LEVESQUEAUGUST 11, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEThe past few months have taught us once again that the greatest tragedies in the world do not affect everyone equally.
LET’S LEAD THE RETURN TO PROSPERITY BY PROTECTING THE VULNERABLERICH LESSERJULY 15, 2020QUARTZHe ultimately wrote a book about the tragedy, called Heat Wave.
IS THERE REALLY A “LONELINESS EPIDEMIC”? (EP. 407)STEPHEN J. DUBNERFEBRUARY 27, 2020FREAKONOMICSThat’s James Solomon, the director and producer of a documentary film about that real-life tragedy.
5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICSSeveral pioneers familiar with the facts of the tragedy at the time of its occurrence were also present.
AMONG THE SIOUXR. J. CRESWELLHappening to walk down the Rue Saint Honoré, he had come upon tragedy.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEA heaviness as of unguessed tragedy lay upon all three, not only upon Tom.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWORDS RELATED TO TRAGEDY
- act of gods
- adversities
- afflictions
- bad lucks
- bad news
- bales
- banes
- blight
- blows
- busts
- calamities
- casualties
- cataclysms
- catastrophes
- collapses
- collisions
- crashes
- debacles
- defeats
- depressions
- emergencies
- exigencies
- failures
- falls
- fell strokes
- fiascoes
- floods
- flops
- griefs
- hard lucks
- harm
- hazards
- holocausts
- hot waters
- ill lucks
- misadventures
- mischances
- misfortunes
- mishaps
- reverses
- rocks
- roughs
- ruination
- ruins
- setbacks
- slips
- strokes
- the worsts
- tragedies
- undoings
- upsets
- washouts
- woes
- Judgment Day
- Moira
- annihilation
- calamity
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- circumstance
- conclusion
- condemnation
- death
- decree
- destination
- destiny
- destruction
- disaster
- downfall
- end
- fixed future
- foreordination
- fortune
- handwriting on the wall
- judgment
- karma
- kismet
- lap of the gods
- lot
- opinion
- portion
- predestination
- predetermination
- ruin
- sentence
- tragedy
- verdict
- way the ball bounces
- way the cookie crumbles
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- bad thing
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unluck
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casuality
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- stroke of bad luck
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
- accidents
- adversities
- afflictions
- annoyances
- anxieties
- bad breaks
- bad news
- blows
- burdens
- calamities
- casualities
- cataclysms
- catastrophes
- contretemps
- crosses
- crunches
- debacles
- disadvantages
- disappointments
- discomforts
- doles
- failures
- hard lucks
- hardships
- harm
- inconveniences
- infelicity
- losses
- misadventures
- mischances
- miseries
- nuisances
- reverses
- rotten lucks
- setbacks
- stroke of bad lucks
- tough lucks
- tragedies
- trials
- tribulations
- troubles
- unpleasantnesses
- visitations
- worries
- accidents
- adversities
- afflictions
- annoyances
- anxieties
- bad breaks
- bad news
- blows
- burdens
- calamities
- casualities
- cataclysms
- catastrophes
- contretemps
- crosses
- crunches
- debacles
- disadvantages
- disappointments
- discomforts
- doles
- failures
- hard lucks
- hardships
- harm
- inconveniences
- infelicity
- losses
- misadventures
- mischances
- miseries
- nuisances
- reverses
- rotten lucks
- setbacks
- stroke of bad lucks
- tough lucks
- tragedies
- trials
- tribulations
- troubles
- unpleasantnesses
- visitations
- worries
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