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The car was almost buried in a snowdrift.
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Hours after Oberholtzer and Schnee were murdered, that same night, rescuers responded to a pickup stuck in a snowdrift on a mountain pass outside Breckenridge.
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Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The significance of watching secondary motion The study shows that secondary flows are a fundamental feature of granular materials, whether in snowdrifts, sandpiles, or wheat silos.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
Now her business, Hiccup Earth, has 70,000 cups that Smithe rents out to interested races to replace the typical white paper cups that can pile up like snowdrifts at busy water stops.
—Alexa St. John, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
Now her business, Hiccup Earth, has 70,000 cups that Ms. Smithe rents out to interested races to replace the typical white paper cups that can pile up like snowdrifts at busy water stops.
—Alexa St. John, Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2025
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Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The significance of watching secondary motion The study shows that secondary flows are a fundamental feature of granular materials, whether in snowdrifts, sandpiles, or wheat silos.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
Now her business, Hiccup Earth, has 70,000 cups that Smithe rents out to interested races to replace the typical white paper cups that can pile up like snowdrifts at busy water stops.
—Alexa St. John, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
Now her business, Hiccup Earth, has 70,000 cups that Ms. Smithe rents out to interested races to replace the typical white paper cups that can pile up like snowdrifts at busy water stops.
—Alexa St. John, Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2025
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowdrift. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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snowdrift
noun
snow·drift
-ˌdrift 
: a bank of drifted snow
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