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• s  severely destructive
  cataclysmic nuclear war
  a cataclysmic earthquake

• The Hubble telescope captured the cataclysmic event of the explosion of a star and the birth of a supernova.
• The beach resort did not heed the warning and was buried under 30 meters of tidal wave when the cataclysmic tsunami flattened the coastline.
• Twenty five years after the cataclysmic event, the townsmen still cannot forget the volcano eruption and the lava flowing through the street.

• cataclysmal

News & Articles

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• Fires, fish and rock snot
  Fire season so far this year has been active but not yet been as cataclysmic as in some years past: ...
  June 12, 2013 - Albuquerque Journal
• Three years later, BP oil cleanup ends in some states
  Three years after a cataclysmic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, oil producer BP announced Monday that active oil cleanup had ended in three states hit by the disaster.        
  June 11, 2013 - Chicago Tribune
• Mobile apps for fundraising for nonprofits
  When mobile fundraising was successful by major nonprofits in recent years as a response to cataclysmic events, many in the nonprofit sector realized it was time to take a look at this technology for our fundraising campaigns.
  June 8, 2013 - Savannah Morning News

Quotes

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• Condoleezza Rice in International Herald Tribune
  It is not an easy time in the relationship, but it is also not, I think, a time in which cataclysmic things are affecting the relationship or catastrophic things are happening in the relationship,Rice said.
• Stephen Harper in The Associated Press
  We can't afford some sort of cataclysmic eventlike the 2008 collapse of investment banking giant Lehman Brothers in 2008, Canada's Harper told reporters.
• Keith Urban in International Herald Tribune
  There was no big cataclysmic event that happened right before I went in,Urban said. "It was a lot of small things that were happening in my life, a lot of small moments that were starting to accumulate that were telling me very loud and...