as in disaster
a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction
this latest breakdown of the car is inconvenient, but not a calamity
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Recent Examples of calamity
That would be an economic calamity for them, and for a retiree-dominant state like Florida.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2025
The difference is that the Braves are 9-18 in those games and, by now, conditioned for calamity.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 June 2025
Promises to be full of dry banter in the face of historical upheaval and emotional calamity, which is my favorite Alameddine mode.
—Literary Hub
july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
This approach came of age following the ecological calamity of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and remains the planet’s most successful conservation approach.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2025
The difference is that the Braves are 9-18 in those games and, by now, conditioned for calamity.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 June 2025
Promises to be full of dry banter in the face of historical upheaval and emotional calamity, which is my favorite Alameddine mode.
—Literary Hub
july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
This approach came of age following the ecological calamity of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and remains the planet’s most successful conservation approach.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calamity
Noun
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For these communities and others like them (our thoughts are with the people of Central Texas), several days of disaster usually means years of arduous reconstruction.—
Louis Gritzo,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Additionally, the general public came to mistrust and reject nuclear energy projects, further disillusioned by the Three Mile Island disaster.—
Time,
Time,
15 July 2025
Noun
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If the answer was yes, then the jobs apocalypse might arrive sooner than even Amodei had predicted.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
27 June 2025
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Like yesterday, and the days before, she is interred in the ground up to her waist, the afterthought of some unnamed apocalypse.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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As the climate crisis accelerates, producing more frequent and devastating tragedies, our leaders must offer more than thoughts and prayers.—
Brian Recker,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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Blakely, along with 26 other Camp Mystic girls and counselors, perished in the deluge – forcing her family to endure yet another unfathomable tragedy.—
Pamela Brown,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
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“Calamity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calamity. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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