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Recent Examples of snowdrift
Alex exits the vehicle and sees a body buried in a nearby snowdrift.
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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
Perhaps appropriately, some Chiefs went through drills Wednesday with snowdrifts looming over them in the distance.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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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
Perhaps appropriately, some Chiefs went through drills Wednesday with snowdrifts looming over them in the distance.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowdrift
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The worst is packing a power bank but forgetting the charging cord for your phone in the hotel room.—
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
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An 8,000-square-foot stone bank barn that once served as a working agricultural structure now has a vast entertaining space and a gym, while a separate equestrian barn is outfitted with 14 stalls, tack and feed rooms, a barn manager’s office, and an outdoor jumping and dressage arena.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowdrift. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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