snowdrifts

noun

plural of snowdrift
as in snowbanks

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  1. banks
  2. drifts
  3. mounds
Noun
  • Regulators have also relaxed key capital constraints, giving banks greater flexibility to deploy their balance sheets.
    — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Lawmakers also have warned major banks, port authorities and fuel distributors that facilitating the imports could expose companies to civil or criminal liability and future congressional investigations.
    — DAVID McHUGH, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of banks
Noun
  • As the truck carrying Omitsu’s body lumbered along through the drifts, the villagers walked beside it, occasionally helping to sweep away snow.
    — Yasushi Inoue, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
  • That’s a big discount considering the usual price drifts between $240 and $299.
    — Brad Bourque, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of drifts
Noun
  • The stunt was Depp’s second in-character appearance as Scrooge, coming three months after a similarly interactive appearance at San Diego Comic-Con that also generated mounds of social media content from passerby.
    — J. Kim Murphy, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The soil surrounding termite mounds also provides good conditions for species such as naked mole rats and aardvarks to make their burrows.
    — Chris Elphick, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of mounds
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“Snowdrifts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowdrifts. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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