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avalanche

[av-uh-lanch, -lahnch] / ˈæv əˌlæntʃ, -ˌlɑntʃ /
NOUN
falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity
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Hence the avalanche that fell on Blake Lemoine, a former Google engineer.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Anything that blocks them, be it an avalanche or landslide, will lead to a "big accumulation of water, then it creates these incredibly fast floods."

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Initial reports from Nepal had suggested that an earthquake may have triggered the ice avalanche and landslide.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

"We believe a rock-ice avalanche occurred in Nepal, blocking the Lhende river and causing the cascading flood event," Sarthak Shrestha, a remote sensing and geo information analyst with the intergovernmental institute, told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

The eruption had shattered the mountain, and now a fifty-mile-wide avalanche of rock and mud and melted ice was taking aim at the valley below.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis

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

And although thick, this season's snow covering has been unstable, contributing to a steep rise in the number of people killed by alpine avalanches.

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

While global warming affects weather patterns, the temperature itself could also have a direct impact on avalanches.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2026

It was not the most ideal terrain, plagued as it was by mudslides, floods, and avalanches.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

Macon returned with a basket and avalanched pink shrimp, corn on the cob, and red potatoes across the paper-covered table.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Unlike ski resorts, which use explosives and other mechanisms to keep inbounds slopes from avalanching during ski days, the backcountry is uncontrolled.

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

In late 1997 he probably single-handedly stopped a panic about Korean debt from avalanching into a U.S. market crash by working the phones, convincing international bankers that they should cut Korea a break.

From Time Magazine Archive

And after a lifetime of scholarship he was so laden with erudition that his ideas came avalanching down faster than he could organize them.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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