Synonyms for catastrophes
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1. List of paraphrases for "catastrophes":

   disasters, calamities, disaster

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1. Anthony Summers:

   One of the things that was hidden was the secret that United States was breaking the Japanese diplomatic code and keeping that secret saved countless lives during the war... but after that, there is no worthy reason for continuing to vilify two honorable men and to allow them to shoulder the responsibility of the death of so many young men. It is an injustice that should be righted. the fact that there have only been two big catastrophes -- one was Pearl Harbor... and the other was 9/11. They are both the same kind of stature and horror in the American memory.

2. Clay Cowl:

   In credit to the groups thinking about space flight, my opinion is that we're going to have to figure out ways to mitigate potential side effects of this travel as much as possible because I don't know what the public appetite is going to be to tolerate in-flight emergencies and catastrophes.

3. Georges Clemenceau:

   War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

4. Isaac Asimov:

   Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

5. Brian Fields:

   Earth-based catastrophes such as large-scale volcanism and global warming can destroy the ozone layer, too, but evidence for those is inconclusive for the time interval in question.