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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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Recent headlines about AI-related job cuts at Meta Platforms and Cisco Systems aren’t the avalanche.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

April is always an avalanche, but this year the early parts of the fall and spring season were deserts.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

“It’s an avalanche of earnings power,” says Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

"I'm very sad that avalanche covered the school," one child wrote, addressing the letter to a teacher they didn't know had already been killed.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

The rats who had been chasing him, and it must have been about all of them, were falling after him in an avalanche of stone.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins




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