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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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With an avalanche of media attention and critical praise, its No. 1 counterpart in nonfiction, “London Falling,” by Patrick Radden Keefe, sold 13,468 copies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Recent headlines about AI-related job cuts at Meta Platforms and Cisco Systems aren’t the avalanche.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

“It’s an avalanche of earnings power,” says Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

"I'm very sad that avalanche covered the school," one child wrote, addressing the letter to a teacher they didn't know had already been killed.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Wearing their Racal space suits, they laid out a trail that wound into Kitum Cave, marking the trail with avalanche poles so that people would not get lost.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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