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Recent Examples of snowbank
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.
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Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
By the next day, friends and searchers began finding Oberholtzer’s belongings along the roadside near Hoosier Pass — her distinctive blue backpack, a bloody glove and a tissue — and, that afternoon around 3 p.m., her body was discovered in a snowbank.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The wafting of a memory, the rustle of a rabbit through a snowbank, the unfolding of a rose.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025
We were buzzed, goofing around, pushing one another into snowbanks — oblivious gentrifiers on the home turf of seven friends out looking for a fight.
—Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2025
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Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
By the next day, friends and searchers began finding Oberholtzer’s belongings along the roadside near Hoosier Pass — her distinctive blue backpack, a bloody glove and a tissue — and, that afternoon around 3 p.m., her body was discovered in a snowbank.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The wafting of a memory, the rustle of a rabbit through a snowbank, the unfolding of a rose.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025
We were buzzed, goofing around, pushing one another into snowbanks — oblivious gentrifiers on the home turf of seven friends out looking for a fight.
—Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowbank
Noun
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Sparse snowdrifts, some ponding of standing water, and repairs to the water system being made.—
CASA Sacramento,
CBS News,
19 Nov. 2025
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After a day outdoors, the nearly 26,000-square-foot spa beckons with hydrotherapy pools, a 115-foot indoor lap pool, an outdoor pool surrounded by snowdrifts in winter, and saunas scented with pine.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Crowds and traffic became such an issue that in 2021, the park began requiring weekend visitors during the February Firefall dates to have reservations as a way to limit congestion and prevent crowds from trampling stream banks and parking illegally along Yosemite Valley’s sensitive meadows.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Most notably, watch here as backup center Oso Ighodaro shuts down Jalen Brunson’s final attempt to tie the score, then Grayson Allen deflects his pass, hustles into the backcourt and banks it off Mikal Bridges’ face and out of bounds.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Snowbank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowbank. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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