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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catastrophe
Noun
  • Similarly, the market-resilience work performed by a lab at the University of California, Davis, offers solutions to farmers and agricultural communities that are vulnerable to intensifying weather disasters.
    Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • Federal database that tracked costly weather disasters no longer being updated How to prepare for an earthquake disaster Huge earthquakes have long been an existential crisis for millions along the West Coast, as described in a 2022 USA TODAY article.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Yesterday, when asked about Musk’s criticism--which could sink the entire bill, if enough Senate Republicans like Ron Johnson and their constituents turn against it--the president chalked it up to sour grapes over the bill’s failure to extend EV tax credits.
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 6 June 2025
  • While human error is the leading cause of data loss, other causes include hardware failure, theft, software corruption, viruses, natural disasters and power failure.
    Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Now almost all of them are missing their crowns, a beech apocalypse.
    Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
  • Shopping and Consumer Behavior The retail apocalypse?
    Charell G. Coleman, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Each of these tragedies reverberates through their departments and communities, amplifying the sense of vulnerability and loss.
    Jillian E. Snider, Boston Herald, 13 June 2025
  • Just hours before the accident, Kapur made a tribute to the Air India plane crash tragedy.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Meantime Marty and his ex-wife Felicia (Karen Gillan), on good terms, commiserate by phone about the latest roster of calamities.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • All these calamities are happening simultaneously — so many disasters coming at such speed that the bad news slams into Marty like a psychological avalanche.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
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“Catastrophe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catastrophe. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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