/kəˈlæmɪti/
Calamity
noun
An event resulting in great loss.
“When the letter arrived bearing news of her brother's death in the war, she understood for the first time that calamity was not something that happened to other people in distant places, but a force that could reach through an envelope and shatter everything she held dear.”
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