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awful tragedy

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meanings of awfuland tragedy


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awful
adjective
uk /ˈɔː.fəl/ us /ˈɑː.fəl/
extremely bad ...
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tragedy
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/ us /ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/
a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death ...
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Examples of awful tragedy


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Sixteen months ago, an awfultragedy took place in this country.
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It is unfortunate that this awfultragedy has now become a bland, everyday statistic.
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Anything else would be an awfultragedy.
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And so the awfultragedy goes on.
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It is because we dread lest exactly the same faults which led to that awfultragedy are now being repeated that our anxiety is so great.
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I recognise the fine record of our railways, but we must keep in proportion the awfultragedy which occurred in the early hours of this morning.
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An awfultragedy has already occurred.
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The new humanitarian coalition is our best chance of bringing that about and, then, from this awfultragedy, we can wrest some good.
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There is nothing so hateful as to talk of the possibility of future wars after the awfultragedy of the past few years.
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It was an awfultragedy.
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That would have been an awfultragedy.
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If this awfultragedy is coming to the world in the near future, next week, there will be no possible division between us.
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If they pay some attention to that factor, the public may learn the lesson so that such an awfultragedy does not occur again.
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Despite all the promises, the western powers appear to be standing by as the whole awfultragedy unfolds again.
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Every now and then, those who think that they know best are caught out by some awfultragedy that their rational minds could not foresee.
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I live on the very brow of the hill on the other side of which this awfultragedy struck the innocents of that village.
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The awfultragedy, for the orchestra, was that eventually we were not able to play the standard classics.
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There were three further awful tragedies in the 1980s: two in this country and one abroad.
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Some awful tragedies have taken place around the world.
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I share the grief at the awful tragedies of war.
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