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The car was almost buried in a snowdrift.
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Be extra alert and remember that snowdrifts can hide smaller children.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
That is, the snowdrifts are up to my waist, and it’s been snowing all weekend.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Wall panels and wardrobe doors opened to reveal, variously, a garden, a snowdrift, and a deer carcass hanging on a gambrel.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Especially in the dead of winter when deep snowdrifts absorb all sound and jagged encircling ridges form an impenetrably icy barrier.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 July 2024
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
That is, the snowdrifts are up to my waist, and it’s been snowing all weekend.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Wall panels and wardrobe doors opened to reveal, variously, a garden, a snowdrift, and a deer carcass hanging on a gambrel.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Especially in the dead of winter when deep snowdrifts absorb all sound and jagged encircling ridges form an impenetrably icy barrier.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 July 2024
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowdrift. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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snowdrift
noun
snow·drift
-ˌdrift 
: a bank of drifted snow
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