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The car was almost buried in a snowdrift.
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That is, the snowdrifts are up to my waist, and it’s been snowing all weekend.
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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
Meteorologists warned that persistent snowdrifts could hamper cleanup efforts from the intense weekend blizzard.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
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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
Meteorologists warned that persistent snowdrifts could hamper cleanup efforts from the intense weekend blizzard.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowdrift. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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snowdrift
noun
snow·drift
-ˌdrift 
: a bank of drifted snow
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