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Recent Examples of snowdrift
The snow is piling up in Long Branch, New Jersey, with wind gusts leading to snowdrifts.
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Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
And, showcasing their awesome, frightening power, one avalanche derailed a train in Switzerland on Monday, injuring five on board, while another swept through a refuge on a French mountainside earlier this month, shattering windows and dumping snowdrifts inside the building’s kitchen.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
Each loop of the driveway produced an impassable snowdrift in winter, but by then Carol and Mike were on the coast, watching waving kelp fronds from their living room.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Hours after Oberholtzer and Schnee were murdered, that same night, rescuers responded to a pickup stuck in a snowdrift on a mountain pass outside Breckenridge.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
And, showcasing their awesome, frightening power, one avalanche derailed a train in Switzerland on Monday, injuring five on board, while another swept through a refuge on a French mountainside earlier this month, shattering windows and dumping snowdrifts inside the building’s kitchen.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
Each loop of the driveway produced an impassable snowdrift in winter, but by then Carol and Mike were on the coast, watching waving kelp fronds from their living room.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Hours after Oberholtzer and Schnee were murdered, that same night, rescuers responded to a pickup stuck in a snowdrift on a mountain pass outside Breckenridge.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowdrift
Noun
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After several minutes of police trying to get Steven Jones to drop the knife with their guns drawn, the three officers were able to form a circle around him with a sidewalk and small snowbank to his back, the video shows.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
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Also in January, another ValuJet DC-9 with 30 people aboard slid into a snowbank after landing at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, closing the airport for nearly three hours.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The building is full of character, having at turns been home to a book press, bank, and, most appropriately, the founding headquarters of the Danish Spirit Producers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 May 2026
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They’ve then been asked for bank details, including account and routing numbers.—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowdrift. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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