Synonyms for calamities
calami·ties

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1. List of paraphrases for "calamities":

   disasters, catastrophes, scourges

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1. The United:

   Making a decision to leave their own country has to be the very last resort, they are unable to meet the resources, recovery and relief needs on a yearly basis, when they experience calamities like landslides, flooding and hurricanes that we're seeing happening more frequently -- and so we're going to be seeing more forms of migration.

2. Bishnupada Sethi:

   Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burnt and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   I ’m really worried. I ’m worried about a cascading set of calamities around the world.

4. Prime Minister Antonio Costa:

   We understand the dimension of this horrible tragedy that devastated various municipalities here in Madeira, and we also know about the calamities affecting other zones of the country that now have to be addressed.

5. Chinese Proverb:

   One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.