catastrophically
Americanadverb
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Pantglas Junior School and surrounding houses in the village near Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, were catastrophically engulfed in coal slurry after the colliery spoil tip collapsed on 21 October 1966.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The investor response to the calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and rival executives to slow down frontier artificial-intelligence development was greeted negatively, albeit not catastrophically, by investors on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Arendt had spent years among institutions that preserved continuity imperfectly—and could fail catastrophically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Something went catastrophically wrong with the boat to make it go down like that,” said Smith, who has operated charter boats for 35 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
It not only kept electrons from spiraling catastrophically into the nucleus; it also explained hydrogen’s bewildering wavelengths.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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