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snowslide

[snoh-slahyd] / ˈsnoʊˌslaɪd /


NOUN
landslide
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The men, ages 23 and 32, were killed in the snowslide Thursday morning in the area of Lone Peak in the Wasatch Range southeast of the city, officials.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2024

The bizarre holiday snowslide is just one of the many challenges facing the ski resorts of New York state as they approach obstacle after obstacle while trying to function during a pandemic.

From New York Times Jan. 22, 2021

The snowslide that was initiated earlier in the week by athletic director Lynn Swann’s resignation accelerated by several orders of magnitude Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2019

He’s correct that the snowslide began as a controlled one; we see a cannon setting it off as part of the ski resort’s ongoing safety maintenance.

From Slate Oct. 24, 2014

Miners have been taken from their cabins dead in the trail of a snowslide that swept the shack to the bottom of the valley without so much as a hair of their heads being injured.

From The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut




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