avalanche
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Utah issued an apology even as an avalanche of social media reaction was mainly critical of McAfee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
An avalanche of financial research over the past several years has shown the value of guaranteed income in retirement plans.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
He recalled how an avalanche of slurry swept through the school just minutes after lessons began.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The score, by Raül Refree, feels like an avalanche of crescendi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
It needed the thunder and the avalanche, the war cry and the whirlwind.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Nelson is lost amid a series of avalanches, and the clock starts ticking.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
For example, though people are still killed in avalanches, alert systems have played an essential role in making winter backcountry travel safer for more people.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Climbers were forced to leave Mount Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, earlier this week due to the rising threat of avalanches.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Rescue crews insist the risk of avalanches is nevertheless still high.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Each individual had to understand how to make a stone knife, how to mend a torn cloak, how to lay a rabbit trap, and how to face avalanches, snakebites or hungry lions.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
A million tons of sodden dirt avalanched down onto Riverside Drive from Elysian Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
The wind howled, the snow avalanched, and the air creaked.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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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