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- adverb In a
cataclysmic way.
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Examples
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But the responsibility is greater because if we get it wrong, we get it cataclysmically wrong.
Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011
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Unlike other far more lyrically explicit works from Dylan's brief but cataclysmically influential "protest song" period – a term that he always hated – such as The Times They Are A-Changin', Masters Of War or With God On Our Side, both songs are oblique and allusive, dealing in metaphor, imagery and allegory rather than any issue-based topical specifics.
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After a mix-up, she and Tristan drink a love potion and fall cataclysmically in love.
Top 50 operas 2011
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The figures are from two decades ago, however, the economy changed cataclysmically after 2007 as urban commercial real estate plunged and now we see the Columbia Center unable to meet its nut.
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Privately, there is close to panic that this was a cataclysmically bad judgment call and that unless there is an effective narrative, accompanied by action over raising economic growth above its increasingly dismal prospects, the coalition is sunk.
When our leaders actually earn their money, fairness will follow | Will Hutton 2011
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Yet there were and are many Christians who look at effort's such as King's at improving life on earth as a waste of time, and who look forward to the apocalypse when God cataclysmically usher in the great new kingdom.
Paul Raushenbush: Is Progress Possible? The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. 2010
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And when the Antichrist eventually, cataclysmically, belatedly arrived, you feared the Albert Hall roof would fall in, the foundations split asunder.
The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010
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(It's also cataclysmically stupid as a matter of history, but that's a different point.)
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They fought enthusiastically to help get an incompetent ex-cokehead in the White House, and now can't figure out for the life of them what made things go so cosmically, cataclysmically, bad.
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(It's also cataclysmically stupid as a matter of history, but that's a different point.)
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