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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Britain was totally unprepared for the cataclysm of the Franco-Prussian War late in 1870 and still less for its outcome.
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Do these eruptions act as a safety valve or will they lead to a cataclysm ?
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Geophysicists have examined these continental scars to tell the story of cataclysms that struck the earth long ago.
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In short, there never was a series of divine cataclysms, and the existence of mankind on earth was relatively short.
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The continent approached the cataclysm of 1914 with a formal apparatus for the conduct of international relations which now seems strikingly small.
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The seventh seal triggers seven trumpets, which introduce various additional heavenly and earthly cataclysms.
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Time was no longer associated just with cataclysms and festivals but rather with everyday life.