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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catastrophe
Noun
  • All the while, he’s typically dressed in a form-fitting dress, a shoulder-length wig and heeled boots (because open-toed shoes around hatchets and augers could spell disaster).
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
  • However, he’s also had his share of expensive disasters, such as Joao Felix, Santiago Arias and Nikola Kalinić.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For many Democrats in Congress, the failure to hold Trump’s national security team accountable signals a broader disregard for truth and accountability.
    Nik Popli, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Both Bhattacharya and Makary are outsiders from their respective public health agencies, each of which has been targeted for substantial reforms by Republicans following widespread policy failures and declining trust following the COVID-19 pandemic era.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That backstory comes well before the suggestion of an imminent apocalypse that lends a dread-like quality to the trailer for a movie told in reverse chronological order.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The horsemen of the SaaS apocalypse are productivity gains, structural changes in software and investor sentiment.
    Ron Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And that March, tragedy struck when three people died in a fatal crowd surge at her concert with Finesse2tymes in Rochester, N.Y.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The rush occurred mere weeks before Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach’s planned announcement of their spa updates; the tragedy in Los Angeles simply moved up the timeline for the quiet, coastal community’s merits as a luxury wellness hub.
    Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the calamity over the fees themselves, U.S. sentiment toward the actions against China are largely supported by citizens and lawmakers across parties—especially the latter, which have introducing bipartisan legislation to revitalize American shipbuilding.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Wildcat Dome’s characters can’t escape the calamities that marked their lives—and their country’s history.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Catastrophe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catastrophe. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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