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snow

[snoh] / snoʊ /
NOUN
snowstorm
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NOUN
precipitation
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Same with precut or packaged lettuce, fresh cilantro, fresh basil, raspberries, snow peas and green onions.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

This year, the upper portion of the river’s watershed in the Rocky Mountains had the least snow on record.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

In the past, foods including bagged salad mixes, fresh cilantro, fresh basil, raspberries, snow peas and scallions have been linked to cyclosporiasis.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Previous outbreaks have been linked to raspberries, snow peas and fresh herbs, among other produce.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

We could hardly stand out in the snow and wait, could we?

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

They predicted the reservoirs will keep setting records every day until snows come and bring the next seasonal pulse of runoff.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

He is a solitary, trudging in his galoshes through the snows of West Hartford, Conn., on his way to work.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Recent snows have also led to evacuations of several communities in Switzerland and northern Italy, as well as power outages and a train derailment at Goppenstein in the south-western Swiss canton of Valais.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2026

An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing rains.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

She longed to be north already, in the wide snows under the blazing Aurora.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Although it snowed in Cleveland and Chicago this week and New Yorkers bundled up, gas traders don’t expect enough sustained cold weather to eat into supplies until next month.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13, 2025

Experts say that global warming means that rains are increasingly being reported in higher reaches where it mostly snowed in the past, destabilising mountains further with water percolating and loosening the ground.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2025

It’s a similar weather pattern to the one seen in January 2022, when it hardly snowed in the Sierra Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 19, 2025

The roads were all completely iced over, snowed over and closed.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

It had snowed four or five inches, so the dogs would have to break trail.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Lime also faces a seasonal risk: Put simply, scooters and bikes are a lot less popular when its snowing or raining, and more in demand when it’s warm and dry outside.

From MarketWatch May 8, 2026

"I came to a locker room and I was excited. I saw it was snowing, and I was like 'it's gonna be a good day'," he said.

From BBC Nov. 10, 2025

It was snowing, final seconds, the Rams were down by six but driving, 13 yards from the end zone, a winter wonderland ... then a frozen nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2025

"I was struck by the fact that it's constantly snowing, as if Russia has only one season. In reality, we have all four."

From BBC May 2, 2025

And if it hadn’t stopped snowing and the sun hadn’t come out and the sky hadn’t started to blue over the tops of the mountains, I might have said, “Forget it,” and headed back home.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt




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