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Meanings of catastrophic failure in English

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Usage of catastrophic failure in English
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The second was man-made, the catastrophic failure of levees protecting New Orleans.
Wired
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September 11 was the catastrophic failure Tenet had predicted three years before.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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But the prototype manned module recently suffered a catastrophic failure in testing.
News.com.au
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The families now seek a degree of accountability for this catastrophic failure.
The Guardian
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Rumors of bank collapse and a catastrophic failure of the banking system persisted.
Terminal Compromise
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If the goal is to deter use, marijuana prohibition is a catastrophic failure.
The Irish Times
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We have to recognise that there has been a catastrophic failure of governance.
The Guardian
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News.com.au
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Supplementary sacral fixation failed to significantly protect against catastrophic failure.
Pubmed
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This over-mathematisation was a colossal and catastrophic failure, Fischer concluded.
Reuters
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It is also a potentially catastrophic failure of politics.
The Irish Times
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The expedition had been a catastrophic failure and someone would have to pay for it.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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Examples range from chemical reactions, protein folding, and nucleation events to the catastrophic failure of bridges.
Pubmed
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The catastrophic failure of the potato crop during the 1840s was a transforming event in Ireland.
The Irish Times
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The other, likely to be a " catastrophic failure", perhaps caused by a missile strike.
News.com.au
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This action was rapidly becoming a catastrophic failure.
The street philosopher
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