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While commentators in Israel and around the world were still mourning or gloating over Israel’s lost military supremacy, both Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad soberly recognized that their countries had come closer to catastrophic defeat than in 1967, and that it was imperative to avoid another war.

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In fact, high-school athletes are three times more likely to sustain catastrophic injuries relative even to their college-age peers, and it takes them longer to return to a symptom-free baseline.

My father had been in a catastrophic car accident, and he died.

Suddenly, I had an episode of catastrophic bleeding.

What happened to me might have been catastrophic, if not for the fact that I was in reach of good surgical access.

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