landslide
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Senate from Michigan in Tuesday’s landslide for Democrats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The train hit a landslide near Stonehaven after heavy rain in an area where the drainage system had been wrongly installed.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Modest, diplomatic and with a strong political pedigree, 66-year-old Herzog was sworn in as Israel's president in 2021 after being elected by lawmakers in a landslide.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
When his center-right Tisza party won a landslide in the election, it was largely thanks to a groundswell of youth participation that delivered the highest electoral turnout in Hungary’s post-socialist history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Senate, winning 70 percent of the vote statewide, the largest margin in Illinois history and the biggest landslide of any Senate race in the country that year.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Increasingly powerful storms, consistent with wider climate trends across the Southern Ocean, have caused landslides that break up breeding colonies and leave the birds more vulnerable.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
We believe there is an obvious role for alert systems, but only if scientists have a better understanding of where and when landslides are likely to occur.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Among other problems, the Eel River Canyon’s unstable geology is notorious for landslides that sent train cars careening into the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Temperatures in the Himalayan region are rising faster than the global average, accelerating glacier retreat and permafrost thaw and contributing to growing risks of landslides, rockfalls, avalanches and glacial lake outburst floods.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The combination of the summit’s collapse and the first two landslides lowered the mountain thirteen hundred feet.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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“Even a moderate earthquake could cause a local-source tsunami from submarine landsliding in Monterey Bay,” public documents say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025
“The weaker alluvial sediments can amplify shaking, and mountains are vulnerable to landsliding, including along the roads that lead to mountain villages.”
From National Geographic ● Sep. 11, 2023
"When the glaciers melted the sediment was no longer supported by the ice margins, so in places it can be susceptible to landsliding."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2020
Says Norge President Judson S. Sayre: "The way orders are landsliding, we could be sold out for the year by October 15."
From Time Magazine Archive
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