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calamities

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for calamities.

Editorial note

That we successfully circumnavigated Maltus' predicted calamities for a couple of centuries does not mean we'll be able to do that forever.

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Quick take

The distress that results from some disaster.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of calamities gathered in one view.

noun

The distress that results from some disaster.

noun

An event resulting in great loss.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for calamities.

noun

The distress that results from some disaster.

noun

An event resulting in great loss.

Example sentences

1

That we successfully circumnavigated Maltus' predicted calamities for a couple of centuries does not mean we'll be able to do that forever.

2

Insure for personal liability calamities, but not collision damage if you could pay for it out of savings.

3

The big success of today's capitalistic system is indicated by the fact, that it even draws profits from the calamities of the people.

4

He's deeply opposed to the calamities that are legally imposed on non-custodial parents.

5

Turns out that people need to communicate during calamities and often prefer text and so do services that are delivering services to these people.

6

How about limiting health calamities caused by hypertension or congestive heart failure?

7

We need to be trying orders of magnitude more than we actually are to prevent such calamities from happening in the first place.

8

> Now, it doesn't make much sense, but there's actually a currency designed to create these kind of economic calamities.

9

That plus backups should help prevent calamities.

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Developing countries frequently switch to USD/EUR in times of financial calamities, as marketplaces there gravitate towards currencies that preserve wealth, not erode it, which is what you're planning to institutionalize.

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Also, we've had calamities, we just got over them.

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More regulation would not help you avoid financial calamities - first, because the guys who would regulate it would have absolutely no idea where the calamity would come from, because they are not prophets.

Quote examples

1

The "bad times" refers to calamities beyond the partner's control like illness, accidents.

2

> "He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over" --Beilby Porteus, Bishop of Chester and London, 1731-1809.

3

I think it's about time Merrill Chapman penned a new and updated edition of "In Search of Stupidity" geared towards internet tech firm calamities and stuff like this.

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Any "key-loss" scenario should consider the chance law-enforcement-actions or other calamities, far from the MtGox offices or Japanese accounts, have made essential parts of the cold-storage keys unrecoverable, for now and perhaps permanently.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use calamities in a sentence?

That we successfully circumnavigated Maltus' predicted calamities for a couple of centuries does not mean we'll be able to do that forever.

What does calamities mean?

The distress that results from some disaster.

What part of speech is calamities?

calamities is commonly used as noun.