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How to use the word cataclysmic in a Sentence?

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The leak of that draft opinion was just an absolutely terrible, cataclysmic event for the court, i think it was a breach of trust, it was obviously a breach of integrity. And I think it's going to take a long time for the scars from that leak to heal.

Thomas Dupree

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's absolutely cataclysmic, we don't have months or weeks to stem this emergency... we are in the emergency already.

Heather Barr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Given that WeChat has become a critical part of everyday life and commerce in China, such a move would likely also be cataclysmic for Apple's business in China — without Weixin available on the iPhone, for example, sales would likely plummet.

Paul Triolo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story' The Witcher : Blood Origin.' A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books -- What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans ? i've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind.

The Witcher

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Other researchers have seen this pattern of a decrease in male births related to traumatic cataclysmic events, one of them being President Kennedy's assassination and the other being the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.

Catherine Monk

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have seen them trying to bring advanced weaponry into Syria on its way to Lebanese Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, israel is not going to wait until those missiles are in the air. Will it be cataclysmic ? I hope not, I hope Iran pulls back.

Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The potential consequences of us getting it wrong are maybe cataclysmic, we have to be right every time.

Trey Gowdy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's going to take some cataclysmic event -- getting hit over the head with a 2-by-4 -- to get them to say,' We have to go out there and protect the bottom of the ballot so we can grow people up,'.

Mitch Ceasar

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Clearly what you're seeing in the energy market with the cataclysmic fall in oil prices - halved in such a short period - I think you will have haves and have nots, we along with others in our industry are dusting off (opportunities).

Leon Black

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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