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Recent Examples of snowbank
Few imagine an everyday man collapsing into a snowbank in rural Idaho, his breath carving a shallow cave in the ice, his mind unraveling with every passing year.
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Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Dec. 2025
His car hit both highway walls then careened over a snowbank and fell 70 feet.
—Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025
Shortly after, Rodríguez slipped and fell into a giant snowbank behind the goal, an image that defines Atletico Ottawa’s first CPL championship, with a 2-1 over Calgary’s Cavalry FC.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
Nearly eight years later, Serhat Gumrukcu, 42, of Los Angeles, is facing a mandatory life sentence in the killing of Gregory Davis, who was abducted from his Vermont home and found shot to death at the base of a nearby snowbank in January 2018, according to prosecutors.
—Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Dec. 2025
His car hit both highway walls then careened over a snowbank and fell 70 feet.
—Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025
Shortly after, Rodríguez slipped and fell into a giant snowbank behind the goal, an image that defines Atletico Ottawa’s first CPL championship, with a 2-1 over Calgary’s Cavalry FC.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
Nearly eight years later, Serhat Gumrukcu, 42, of Los Angeles, is facing a mandatory life sentence in the killing of Gregory Davis, who was abducted from his Vermont home and found shot to death at the base of a nearby snowbank in January 2018, according to prosecutors.
—Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowbank
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Compared with the ostensible consequences of the prisoner’s dilemma, getting fleeced in the snowdrift problem’s scenario isn’t quite as disastrous.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
23 Feb. 2026
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For most other people, winter just grinds on, with dingy snowdrifts melting into puddles that will freeze into ice slicks.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2026
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The recent turmoil is testing some of the foundations that powered private credit’s rapid growth, including aggressive underwriting, highly leveraged middle-market borrowers and the promise of stable capital insulated from bank-style runs.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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The pair has struck a strategic partnership to exploit titles such as the upcoming CGI series The Immortals & The Shadow Realm from Mainframe’s original IP bank and its work-for-hire portfolio.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Snowbank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowbank. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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