catastrophically
Americanadverb
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Catastrophically, many of the 12,000 Haitian works, accumulated over half a century, in the Musée/Galerie d’art Nader were lost when the building that housed them, a family home, disintegrated.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2010
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