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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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Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has called the gigantic wave triggered by a rock and ice avalanche a "Himalayan tsunami".

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Scientists are looking at the possibility that an ice-rock avalanche fell into a tributary of Rasuwa district’s Trishuli River, displacing a large amount of water.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Nepal's foreign minister says preliminary reports show it may have been caused by an earthquake triggering an avalanche, which lead to flash floods.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Anything that blocks them, be it an avalanche or landslide, will lead to a "big accumulation of water, then it creates these incredibly fast floods."

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Aureliano Segundo, on the other hand, could not contain his happiness over the avalanche of foreigners.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

From the vantage point of our helicopter above the Alps, you can make out scars and dimples from recent avalanches.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

The avalanche risk remains high in parts of Tyrol - meaning avalanches can be expected - where two fatal avalanches occurred on Friday in off-piste areas.

From BBC Feb. 21, 2026

The latest deaths took to 18 the number of dead in avalanches in Austria this winter season.

From Barron's Feb. 20, 2026

The glacier rumbled, and little avalanches of snow tumbled down the cliffside.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

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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