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Recent Examples of snowdrift
Except the train to Fargo has been canceled on account of a snowdrift.
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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
Near Yuba Pass in California, a snowdrift broadsided the train.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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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
Near Yuba Pass in California, a snowdrift broadsided the train.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowdrift
Noun
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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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One evening, O’Keefe was found dead in a snowbank outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts, after attending a party.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
27 June 2025
Noun
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Sparks emerge from a red-gold river and settle themselves in flowers that line both banks.—
Mary Jo Bang
July 9,
Literary Hub,
9 July 2025
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Their current 53-38 record is in the bank, however, and most projection methods give them an 80%+ chance to make the postseason.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowdrift. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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