landslide

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Recent Examples of landslide Hellebuyck was a landslide winner of the Vezina as picked by general managers, receiving 31 of 32 first-place votes. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025 Their bodies were discovered inside their den, where they were trapped, buried, and frozen after a probable landslide, around what appeared to be a human butchery site. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2025 On a recent cold, rainy day, as thick fog covered the horizon, geologist Rick Wooten climbed up to the site of an enormous landslide that tore part of the mountain down to the bedrock and killed 11 people from one family. Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025 The hurricane center forecasts its outer rainfall bands could drop 2 to 4 inches of rain on the coastal states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Colima, and Jalisco through June 8, with the potential to cause localized flooding and landslides. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 10 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for landslide
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flood
Noun
  • And that flood will continue for 10 years straight as the Rubin Observatory executes its signature project, dubbed the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • Without good plumbing, teams can drown in a flood of false positives or irrelevant data.
    Alex Lanstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025

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“Landslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landslide. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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