avalanche
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There is an avalanche of advice on TikTok about how to deal with a micromanager, and videos with the #micromanager tag have 230.2 million views and counting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
On the upside for him, Farage has had his back against the wall for a couple of months now, facing an avalanche of questions about money and transparency.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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While their subplot is a worthy ding at today’s avalanche of junk, heaven help us if “Toy Story 6” co-stars an out-of-date cellphone.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
It did seem as though the fire in him was smothered, the thunder and the avalanche, the war cry and the whirlwind, all stamped out.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
The latest deaths took to 18 the number of dead in avalanches in Austria this winter season.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
But while forecasting and blasting techniques have improved in recent years, it is not impossible for avalanches to hit pistes that have been declared safe.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Six people survived Tuesday's tragedy, one of the deadliest avalanches in modern US history.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The materials were loose, so there were constant little avalanches.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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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
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
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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