noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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ecological
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Environmental protection Overpopulation in the Majority World has often been blamed for ecological catastrophe .
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If they do this, ecological catastrophe is inevitable.
economic
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For 24 hours the country appeared headed for political and economic catastrophe , with two Chambers about to be sworn in.
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The republics were poor, in a state of virtual economic catastrophe .
environmental
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They act as a complement to his large works which are responses to a progressive environmental catastrophe .
great
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Most countries of the world have their records of great natural catastrophes which changed the local face of the earth.
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The effects of conquest were followed by the still greater catastrophes of exploitation and forced labour.
major
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Contaminants combined with inappropriate wound care can convert a simple wound to a major catastrophe .
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Short of causing a major catastrophe , a mistake will not cost him his job.
natural
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There are many who have suffered personal disaster and whose livelihoods have been destroyed by natural catastrophe or invasion.
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We respected driving as others regarded natural catastrophes .
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Even the imagery they use is that of natural catastrophe .
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She just wanted some huge natural catastrophe to sweep through the bedroom and miraculously carry her two hundred thousand miles away.
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Surely science must be close to forecasting such natural catastrophes ?
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Most countries of the world have their records of great natural catastrophes which changed the local face of the earth.
nuclear
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I say nuclear catastrophe partly because any exchange of nuclear arsenals will bear no resemblance to anything that could be called war.
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These will go a long way to lessen the real danger of accidental war or nuclear catastrophe due to misinformation.
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Each side claims that its estimate of the chances of nuclear catastrophe is more accurate.
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It was not, somehow, the air of a man contemplating nuclear catastrophe , but a more pleasant dream.
■ VERB
avert
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Computer system users can not control risk management decisions, but suffer big losses when inadequate protection fails to avert catastrophe .
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What averted catastrophe was the introduction of widespread electronic communications, especially for education and entertainment.
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We are the last generation who can avert this catastrophe .
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Are there no other ways of intervening in their environment to avert the catastrophe Walinsky describes?
cause
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That is 80m times the power of the Hiroshima bomb-enough to cause a global catastrophe .
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Short of causing a major catastrophe , a mistake will not cost him his job.
prevent
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But they also knew there was a remote chance that their efforts might help to prevent catastrophe .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most people now accept that global warming could result in an environmental catastrophe .
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Scientists say the oil spill is an ecological catastrophe .
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The blizzard was a catastrophe that affected 17 states, ranging from New Hampshire to Tennessee.
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The economy seems to be moving toward catastrophe .
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The governments of the world failed to act to prevent the catastrophe of World War II.
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The oil spill will be an ecological catastrophe .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the simplest level, patriotism lent meaning and purpose to personal catastrophes that would otherwise appear intolerable.
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Of my five fires, it is the only catastrophe instigated by nature.
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Seven different teachers in the course of ten days became the final catastrophe of this classroom.
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Surely this catastrophe couldn't really be happening?
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The drive for cheap food has been behind every food catastrophe of the past decade.
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The prose of this chapter measures the adequacy of verbal accounts of catastrophe in the age of photographic reproduction.
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These will go a long way to lessen the real danger of accidental war or nuclear catastrophe due to misinformation.
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When November came, and the debt ceiling had not moved, Rubin postponed catastrophe by borrowing from two government pension funds.