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Recent Examples of calamity But the calamity sparked fears of similar collapses in other places. Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025 Arizona was a leader in this, stepping up and understanding that extreme heat is an interesting hybrid calamity. Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025 But earlier this month, President Lee Jae-myung told Reuters such requirements would trigger a calamity similar to the one that eventually required an International Monetary Fund bailout. Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025 In the episode, eight of the nine ringers suffer calamities on the eve of the game which preclude their participation, with Sax held on comically-unfounded suspicion of committing approximately 600 murders in the New York City area. Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for calamity
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Noun
  • For people like Wasefi, with sisters and nieces back home, no amount of tourist-friendliness can compensate for this disaster.
    Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The October 10 disaster killed 16 employees at Accurate Energetic Systems, which makes military and demolition explosives about 60 miles west of Nashville.
    Holly Yan, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In 2011, in fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a zombie apocalypse preparedness guide that explained how readying oneself for a zombie apocalypse can prepare people for any large-scale disaster.
    Tom Duszynski, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kirk's murder is a tragedy – as is any murder.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Here’s how a community dispute escalated into a deadly tragedy.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Oct. 2025

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