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All-rounder Freya Kemp was calamitously run out for a duck on her return to the side from injury before the experience of Knight and Jones calmly dug England out of trouble.

From BBC • May 11, 2024

Voters, we know you’ll give ‘Ted Lasso’ a nod despite its calamitously messy third season, so please balance that out by honoring a heartwarming comedy we can still believe in: ‘Reservation Dogs.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

It’s hard not to be reminded of Cleaver, the calamitously stupid slasher flick fictitiously produced by wannabe Hollywood player Chistopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos’ sixth season.

From The Guardian • Jan. 14, 2019

U.S. statesmen and commanders, Hastings writes, lied too much to the nation and the world but most calamitously to themselves.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2018

The Spanish sack of Tawantinsuyu calamitously expanded on this tradition of plunder, which has greatly accelerated in modern times, fueled by the desperate poverty of Peru’s Indian population.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann