vis major

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noun

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God
• Syn:
act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
• Hypernyms:
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm