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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
First, news emerged this week that the company is killing its disastrous Sora video AI slop app, lighting what was supposed to be a groundbreaking $1 billion deal with Disney on fire.
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Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
But in one of the biggest upsets in figure skating history, Malinin fell twice and made other glaring mistakes in a disastrous free skate, falling from first to eighth place.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
But if the paint doesn’t match, the result could be disastrous.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
Such exploitation becomes the starting point of movements whose aims and effects may ultimately be disastrous for America as a whole.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
But in one of the biggest upsets in figure skating history, Malinin fell twice and made other glaring mistakes in a disastrous free skate, falling from first to eighth place.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
But if the paint doesn’t match, the result could be disastrous.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
Such exploitation becomes the starting point of movements whose aims and effects may ultimately be disastrous for America as a whole.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrous
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That is the highest-level designation for severe accidents, placing it alongside the fatal Challenger (1986) and Columbia (2003) shuttle disasters in terms of gravity.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
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The cause of that fatal accident remains under investigation.—
Anna McAllister,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Just days later, Duke suffered a devastating loss with a Final Four berth on the line.—
Cole Sullivan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Pentagon is reportedly preparing for weeks of ground operations inside Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal, including a potentially devastating and dangerous mission to excavate uranium from the country.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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That house has a history of unfortunate events, including the fate of Cookie, an errant heiress and her pooch.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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The start of 2026 has been a series of unfortunate events for Michelle Harris and her family.—
Monique John,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The team’s approach effectively enabled non-destructive quality control.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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Indonesia’s meteorological agency lifted its tsunami warning hours after the quake, and the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said there was no destructive threat to the country, which is north of the quake’s epicenter.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Much like with the newspaper industry, the internet has had a similar impact on radio stations, just not quite as catastrophic.—
Mac Engel
April 2,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Apr. 2026
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Most notably — and most devastatingly — Woods was involved in a one-car rollover crash in Los Angeles in February 2021, which left him with catastrophic leg injuries.—
Megan Armstrong,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Disastrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disastrous. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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