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as in disastrous
bringing about ruin or misfortune
a calamitous decision to sell their products online exclusively ruined the business
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as in devastating
causing or tending to cause destruction
a calamitous flood that destroyed the town's central business district
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Recent Examples of calamitous
The calamitous Cowboys shouldn’t be giving anybody more than a FG but this Giants team is nearly as bad as any that has worn the proud uniform.
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Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 28 Nov. 2024
The arrangement is a win for outgoing President Joe Biden, who has followed a hapless policy course through a calamitous year for the Middle East.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2024
Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, two generations removed from the Nazis’ horrors, are stepping up to tell the stories of their grandparents, eager to show there are still lessons to learn from the calamitous but increasingly distant years of World War II.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
If past is prologue, calamitous meetings like those during Garcia's tenure will provide mixed results.
—Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
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Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 28 Nov. 2024
The arrangement is a win for outgoing President Joe Biden, who has followed a hapless policy course through a calamitous year for the Middle East.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2024
Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, two generations removed from the Nazis’ horrors, are stepping up to tell the stories of their grandparents, eager to show there are still lessons to learn from the calamitous but increasingly distant years of World War II.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
If past is prologue, calamitous meetings like those during Garcia's tenure will provide mixed results.
—Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calamitous
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Democrats have been grappling with their own version of that resolution, especially ever since the disastrous defeat of their party’s presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, in November.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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Or, even more recently, the disastrous April 8 update to protect against the CVE-2025-21204 vulnerability that installed a mysterious folder, and got everyone’s collective conspiracy theory panties in a bunch.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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With devastating indifference, President Donald Trump and his special assistant Elon Musk have crippled Food for Peace, a program few Americans have heard of, but one that did tremendous good for over six decades.—
Made by History,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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But his dreams of changing the world are shattered when a routine check-up reveals a devastating diagnosis: a rare and aggressive cancer.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 Apr. 2025
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Across all suicide attempts not involving a firearm, only 4% result in death; but for firearm suicide, approximately 90% of attempts are fatal.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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That stretch proved to be fatal for the Heat, as the Cavaliers extended their lead to nine with 16.9 seconds to play and put the game away before Miami scored again following this rough late-game span.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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Such a difficult call really spotlighted for the first time how tough a situation he has been left in by Eddie Howe’s unfortunate absence (due to pneumonia).—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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In 2022, Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, who presided over both trials, decided The Times was not liable for defamation while jurors were deliberating, that the error amounted to unfortunate editorializing but not libel.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Back-to-back-to-back deadly and destructive tornado outbreaks in recent weeks have put a punctuation mark on what’s been an unusually active start to the year for thunderstorms in the United States.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2025
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The Los Angeles region is rebuilding two communities after the most destructive wildfires in Southern California’s history.—
Laurel Rosenhall,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Calamitous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calamitous. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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