avalanche
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From Germany's 7-1 rout of debutants Curacao in Houston on 14 June to Canada's 6-0 hammering of Qatar in Vancouver four days later, there has been an avalanche of goals.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The researchers found that the resulting "avalanche network" of potential failures is approximately four times denser than the underlying physical trade network.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
While their subplot is a worthy ding at today’s avalanche of junk, heaven help us if “Toy Story 6” co-stars an out-of-date cellphone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Then, in November 2022, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT and set off an avalanche of requests to connect data centers to the grid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Every few months—especially when it was hot and humid—the weight of the built-up paper would become too much for the staples, and a slow avalanche of clippings would lean forward and whisper to the floor.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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These deposits form when underwater avalanches of mud, sand, and debris rush down the seafloor and eventually settle into thick sediment layers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Rescue crews insist the risk of avalanches is nevertheless still high.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
The latest deaths took to 18 the number of dead in avalanches in Austria this winter season.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Six people survived Tuesday's tragedy, one of the deadliest avalanches in modern US history.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
All his childish games came back to him, with himself and his father rescuing each other from avalanches or fighting pirates.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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James and the Lakers were getting avalanched, a run to undo a 17-point deficit got them to within a point before the Grizzlies smothered them with a barrage of baskets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
No wonder Norway avalanched us in the medal count last month.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2018
It added: "Two of the rescue team men avalanched traversing below No 3 Gully Buttress."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2016
The awareness of the trend has since avalanched.
From Forbes ● Mar. 9, 2011
He was happy to learn this, he said, for the Brooks Range was treacherous in winter; whole mountainsides avalanched, and storms brewed up in mere minutes.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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But many of today’s backcountry users want to make graceful turns through steep slopes covered with untracked powder, which means they generally want to ski slopes that have a relatively high possibility of avalanching.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
For many artists the avalanching awards and wealth of later life come with an unwelcome diminishing of ideas, but Rauschenberg was still avid for discoveries in his 80s.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2016
The results came in slowly throughout all the night, and then all at once, with calls avalanching in from key states between 10 and 11 p.m..
From Time ● Nov. 5, 2014
Around the same time, one of his avalanching designs was selected for an addition to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, an otherwise imperturbable neoclassical structure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Back we go, avalanching rocks as we scramble up the shaley streambed and arrive at the embankment where we had seen an ear of corn.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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