landslide
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Senate from Michigan in Tuesday’s landslide for Democrats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
An American congressional delegation will travel to Turkey for the annual UN climate summit, a Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday, a day after his party's landslide midterm victory.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Then last Sunday a student movement less than two years old won Serbia's parliamentary elections by a landslide.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 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
First the earth would fall away in a massive landslide down the mountain, and then hot gases, lava, and rock could erupt from the newly empty space.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
The collapse at Tracy Arm demonstrates what could be possible for landslides.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Further west in the Pacific, it's also been an active season in eastern China and Japan as storms including Maysak and Dujuan have brought recent widespread floods and landslides.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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
"Considerable flash flooding and landslides are also possible across the Southern Appalachians," it warned in a briefing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
His first pictures came as the ash cloud and landslides shot away to the north.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
“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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