disaster
Example Sentences
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The central question is whether the Eastlands should have been prepared or if this was a natural disaster beyond all reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The couple now live in Berlin, having uprooted their lives a second time - this time to escape conflict, not a nuclear disaster.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Kuhn said the wildfire findings also exposed how disaster response systems can fail people who already are living without shelter.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
And just as we saw for crypto and the metaverse, plenty of other failing businesses are going to take the hasty survival fund even if it ends in disaster.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
He’d barely avoided disaster with the damn shawarma; God knew what would happen if he messed this up.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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