snowdrift

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Recent Examples of snowdrift Spread over hundreds of acres of forest along the Lake Michigan shoreline, students played sports and tobogganed through snowdrifts. Mitra Taj, New York Times, 17 May 2025 Alex exits the vehicle and sees a body buried in a nearby snowdrift. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2025 Except the train to Fargo has been canceled on account of a snowdrift. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025 These tips, tricks, and items can help prevent you from getting stranded in a snowdrift. Kade Krichko, Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for snowdrift
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Common items that contain lithium batteries include smartphones, laptops, tablets and e-readers, smartwatches and fitness trackers and portable power banks.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In the following weeks, Vought and Paoletta stopped oversight activities, quashed ongoing investigations and froze active enforcement cases, which included matters involving some of the largest banks in the nation, such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Capital One.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowdrift. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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