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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
avalanche .
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Examples
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With no help from the authorities, his life has 'avalanched' into despair.
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In response to a request for proposals for about 200 megawatts, Xcel got avalanched by bids for over six gigawatts.
Anne Butterfield: The Plunging Cost of Renewables and Boulder's Energy Future Anne Butterfield 2011
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She rolled it out and took it in over one rail and the other; and at times, nose thrown skyward, sitting down on her heel, she avalanched it aft.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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In response to a request for proposals for about 200 megawatts, Xcel got avalanched by bids for over six gigawatts.
Anne Butterfield: The Plunging Cost of Renewables and Boulder's Energy Future Anne Butterfield 2011
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Kristian Matsson has been avalanched with Bob Dylan comparisons, but his anecdotes and omnipresent observations of the natural world have more in common with the Joni Mitchell of
S.X. Rosenstock: The Tallest Man on Earth: New Folk Grows Numinous 2010
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Kristian Matsson has been avalanched with Bob Dylan comparisons, but his anecdotes and omnipresent observations of the natural world have more in common with the Joni Mitchell of "River."
S.X. Rosenstock: The Tallest Man on Earth: New Folk Grows Numinous 2010
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If the slope above us avalanched or the cornice collapsed, we hoped the shallow cave would protect us — assuming the ice screws we were anchored to didn't get ripped out and follow the debris to the ground.
A Long and Slippery Slope Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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He's been avalanched with Bob Dylan comparisons but his songs spin their anecdotes and omnipresent observations of the natural world -- birds, birches, snow, flowers -- in narratives that have more in common with the Joni Mitchell of "River" or "Carey" or "All I Want."
S.X. Rosenstock: The Tallest Man on Earth: New Folk Grows Numinous 2010
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If the slope above us avalanched or the cornice collapsed, we hoped the shallow cave would protect us — assuming the ice screws we were anchored to didn't get ripped out and follow the debris to the ground.
A Long and Slippery Slope Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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If the slope above us avalanched or the cornice collapsed, we hoped the shallow cave would protect us — assuming the ice screws we were anchored to didn't get ripped out and follow the debris to the ground.
A Long and Slippery Slope Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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