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固有名詞

Katrina

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. A variant of Catherine.
2. The 11th hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
   • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 250:

     “It’s disaster capitalism,” the Aleph said. “All the profiteering that went down post-Katrina. It was in 2005. You’re probably too young to remember that hurricane.”

3. (US, metonymically) A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.
   • 2020 March 8, Cillizza, Chris, “Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 March 2020:

     Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?

Further reading

• Hurricane Katrina on Wikipedia.