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as in fatal
bringing about ruin or misfortune
a split-second, disastrous decision that I would forever regret
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as in devastating
causing or tending to cause destruction
a disastrous fire from which the town never fully recovered
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Recent Examples of disastrous
Dahmen led most of the tournament, but a disastrous final round cost him.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
The horrific firestorm in January in California has already marked 2025 as a disastrous year for U.S. wildfires.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
After a disastrous meeting between Trump and Putin in Helsinki, in July, 2018, Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, took advantage of the bad news cycles to issue a solemn declaration that the United States would never, ever go along with Putin’s theft of Crimea.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
Clooney held a fundraiser just days before Biden’s disastrous debate performance last June, which ultimately led Clooney to write an op-ed calling on the president to step aside.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
The horrific firestorm in January in California has already marked 2025 as a disastrous year for U.S. wildfires.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
After a disastrous meeting between Trump and Putin in Helsinki, in July, 2018, Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, took advantage of the bad news cycles to issue a solemn declaration that the United States would never, ever go along with Putin’s theft of Crimea.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
Clooney held a fundraiser just days before Biden’s disastrous debate performance last June, which ultimately led Clooney to write an op-ed calling on the president to step aside.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrous
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Across all suicide attempts not involving a firearm, only 4% result in death; but for firearm suicide, approximately 90% of attempts are fatal.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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How Many Aviation Crashes Were There in 2024? NTSB data shows that throughout 2024, there were 1,199 aviation incidents and accidents, 180 of which were fatal.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Memories are fresh here of the devastating two quakes in southern Turkey in 2023.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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With devastating indifference, President Donald Trump and his special assistant Elon Musk have crippled Food for Peace, a program few Americans have heard of, but one that did tremendous good for over six decades.—
Made by History,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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After a half-decade of unfortunate injuries and the still-strange collapse in the bubble, Leonard at last looks like his two-time Finals MVP self.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Tau also has the unfortunate ability to form clumps known as tangles in the brain, again interfering with normal cellular communication.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
1 May 2025
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The indictment further alleges that, during this same period, Hamad conspired with co-defendant Collins to manufacture and possess destructive devices.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The four-part Investigation Discovery series The Fall of Diddy looks into the making and unmaking of the producer-performer-entrepreneur, revealing a history of alleged abusive and destructive behavior by Combs that dates to the late 1980s.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Disastrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disastrous. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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