cataclysmal

variants or cataclysmic
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as in turbulent
marked by sudden or violent disturbance the French Revolution was one of the great cataclysmal events in modern history

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Adjective
  • Which one among them wins is going to depend heavily on who gets hot come the playoffs and who can best avoid disastrous results.
    Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Trying to implement changes in a hurry can have disastrous results.
    Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images President Donald Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign humanitarian aid and shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development is having devastating consequences globally, several humanitarian nongovernmental organization leaders told ABC News.
    Julia Cherner, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • After seeing the devastating impact of the 1918 pandemic on the nation’s soldiers and sailors, officials prioritized protecting the military from influenza.
    Alexandra M. Lord, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The book explores the complexity of hope, the necessity of grief, and the need for new ways of thinking, becoming, and belonging in turbulent times.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Bill Hader says Ye would tell cast 'on the regular' that Saturday Night Live was 'incredibly unfunny' The development comes in the midst of an turbulent month for the rapper-slash-fashionista.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For Matias and Rafael the risk is that this will prove to be a fatal attraction though.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The Traffic Investigation Unit is looking into the circumstances surrounding the fatal accident, police said.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2025
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