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blizzard

noun

Definition of blizzardnext
1
as in thunderstorm
a severe storm with a large amount of falling snow Their trip was delayed by a week because of a blizzard.

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2
as in tide
an overwhelming influx or flow of something The star's off-the-cuff comments touched off a blizzard of criticism on social media.

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Recent Examples of blizzard Trapped by a blizzard and cut off from the outside world, the guests must spend the night with a killer in their midst. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 Last year, amid a blizzard of hirings and sackings at the upper level of the major houses, a group of top designers maintained a WhatsApp group chat dedicated to complaining about Sherman’s coverage of their fates. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026 Nine of the 22 this year have been for heat, and February’s historic blizzard was the reason for another five. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2026 As blizzard conditions increasingly worsened, the search and rescue team laid the bodies together and covered them with a tarp, marking the spot with GPS coordinates and long poles used to probe for people buried under avalanches. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blizzard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blizzard
  1. thunderstorm
  2. tide
  3. hurricane
  4. stream
  5. typhoon
  6. avalanche
  7. snowstorm
  8. flood
Noun
  • However, by Thursday night, any isolated afternoon thunderstorm east of DFW will quickly fade with the loss of daytime heating.
    — Nelly Carreño, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • This thunderstorm is producing an excessive amount of deadly cloud to ground lightning.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • One of those tides came in while Steinbach was at the far end of the island shooting a sunset.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The committee had been on hold all year and was expected to stay there, until the tide began turning toward a hike in late August.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of tide
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  • In June, citing concerns related to hurricane season, DHS said all detainees at the Florida state-run center located at an isolated airstrip in the Everglades were transferred to other facilities.
    — Gisela Salomon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Ask about the center’s emergency plans for fires, hurricanes or other situations that might prompt a lockdown or evacuation.
    — Anna Roman, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2026
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  • Titcomb said Ravel is accelerating relationships with waste suppliers, fiber producers, yarn manufacturers and brands, with the goal of connecting them around the same material stream.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • There’s no end to the constant stream of offshoots, including doomgaze, grunge-gaze, twang-gaze, and surf-gaze.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of stream
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  • The disaster underscores Vietnam’s growing climate vulnerability, with rising seas, extreme rainfall and a recent string of deadly storms repeatedly flooding rural provinces and iconic historic cities along its typhoon-prone coast.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • This year, weather has added another layer of volatility, with typhoons and a prolonged heatwave already affecting monthly retail patterns.
    — Li Jun, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
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  • After driving to the 1-yard line, Sean McVay called a quarterback sneak, one that ended with Stafford being enveloped in an avalanche of bodies, including Warner’s.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The floods and mudslides that were triggered by last week's ice-and-rock avalanche have buried several Himalayan villages in the border region of Nepal and Tibet.
    — Mamita Bhandari, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of avalanche
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  • The Michigan game, though, was played in a second-half snowstorm with Ohio State leading by multiple possessions.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Deep in the Pyrenees mountains, a young man, Miquel, struggles in the wake of his mother’s death in a snowstorm — a tragic event that was at the center of Tóibín’s 2006 novella, A Long Winter.
    — Mary Lawrence Ware, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of snowstorm
Noun
  • Technology analysts and traders are not buying the flood of warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the need to slow down development that have recently come from frontier model platforms.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In one scene, the couple turns up the music while the sound of ambulance sirens floods the streets.
    — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
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