avalanche
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The swift unwind of Situational shows how quickly information can spread across Wall Street when a trader is in trouble—and how fast it can lead to an avalanche of selling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“If we are a pebble in that avalanche, then I’m happy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
On that note, a successful trip does not require a photogenic avalanche of produce.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Who is Nirmal Purja, the famed mountaineer killed in Broad Peak avalanche?
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
And although thick, this season's snow covering has been unstable, contributing to a steep rise in the number of people killed by alpine avalanches.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
The man was among six people rescued in four separate incidents on and around Ben Nevis - two of which were during avalanches.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
The latest deaths took to 18 the number of dead in avalanches in Austria this winter season.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
We slid down on our behinds, little avalanches of sand pouring around our feet and down our pants.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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
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
Around the same time, one of his avalanching designs was selected for an addition to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, an otherwise imperturbable neoclassical structure.
From Time Magazine Archive
I froze, my heart in my throat, but the avalanching ice passed fifty yards to the left, out of sight, without doing any damage.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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