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These pictures individualize general cataclysms such as war, disease and displacement. Washington Post (Dec 1, 2016)

This first performance of a planned 17-show run marked a high point for island residents still working through the difficult, often heart-wrenching process of recovering from cataclysmic Hurricane Maria in 2017. Los Angeles Times (Jan 12, 2019)

In the corner of his room catalogues piled up—catalogues for machinery, furnishings, seeds, fruit trees. East of Eden

The Tokyo 2020 Games will be long remembered as a catalyst of the biggest social transformation for Tokyo and Japan in this era.” Reuters (Nov 29, 2018)

It released the SpaceShipTwo passenger craft at an altitude of about 44,000 feet and then the spaceship was catapulted to 55 miles above Earth. Reuters (Feb 22, 2019)

But Ged paid him for it in sorcerers’ kind, healing his eyes of the cataracts that were in the way of blinding him. A Wizard of Earthsea

We are once again invited to explore a cinematic vision of a self-inflicted catastrophe, complete with volcanic magma flowing through downtown areas, hailstorms tearing through city buses, and monsoons toppling skyscrapers like sand castles. Scientific American (Nov 30, 2017)

Frequent catastrophic flooding prompted civic leaders and the corps a century ago to begin taming the river system with infrastructure. Los Angeles Times (Feb 24, 2019)

"The man was just sitting there, staring into space, eyes wide open in this catatonic state with paramedics all over him." BBC (Mar 7, 2018)

The categorical tone of the new assessments reflects scientists' growing confidence in the ability to detect the role of a changing climate in individual extreme events, such as heat waves and droughts. Washington Post (Nov 23, 2018)

The scale ranges from a “weak” category 1 that mostly brings helpful precipitation to an “exceptional” category 5 that’s far more hazardous than helpful. The Verge (Feb 27, 2019)