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landslide

[land-slahyd] / ˈlændˌslaɪd /
NOUN
landslip
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It is believed that the flood was caused by a landslide upstream of the Budhi Gandaki River in the Gorkha district.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had to step down just over two years after his July 2024 landslide election victory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Bills made it through the first two weeks without committing a turnover, then survived a landslide Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The resulting landslide and tsunami caused eight deaths, according to a reconstruction published in Natural Hazards.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Burr had alienated Jefferson and the triumphant Republican party by his disloyalty as a vice president and had lost by a landslide in his bid to become a Federalist governor of New York.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Sections of railway in coastal Orange County have repeatedly shut down for landslides, coastal erosion and rockfalls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The loss of glacier ice can also destabilise mountain slopes and increase the risk of landslides in some places - which can lead to flash flooding in extreme cases, as seen in Nepal in August.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Another wave of landslides and heavy rain have killed about 30 people in Nepal, as the Himalayan nation reels from August's catastrophic flooding that left 1,400 dead and thousands more missing.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Much of Nepal's hydropower infrastructure lies along steep river valleys fed by glaciers -- terrain exposed to floods, landslides and cascading geological hazards.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The twin cascades of dirt, rock, ice, and water were the largest landslides ever recorded anywhere in the world.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

“Even a moderate earthquake could cause a local-source tsunami from submarine landsliding in Monterey Bay,” public documents say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025

“The weaker alluvial sediments can amplify shaking, and mountains are vulnerable to landsliding, including along the roads that lead to mountain villages.”

From National Geographic ● Sep. 11, 2023

"When the glaciers melted the sediment was no longer supported by the ice margins, so in places it can be susceptible to landsliding."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2020

Says Norge President Judson S. Sayre: "The way orders are landsliding, we could be sold out for the year by October 15."

From Time Magazine Archive


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