common disaster
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Though joined by common disaster, they are meet-cute opposites: Odessa blingy, fatalistic and cool; Angela nerdy, anxious and eager to please.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2022
“If it was only for Japanese people we can say ‘an earthquake has occurred,’” said Kazuki Matsumoto, an official at the land ministry, describing a common disaster announcement.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021
Each of the country’s over 30 million small businesses has unique needs and challenges in the face of a common disaster.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2020
We need the universities and we sympathize with their financial problems, but we beg to differ on the thesis of common disaster ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
A common disaster had created a common cause amongst the whole troop, and with one accord everybody—peons, mozos, interpreters, bark-strippers and gentlemen—set in motion a grand cleaning-up day.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
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