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snow

/snoʊ̯/ adjective C2
  1. Done because the alternate outcome is very unlikely to pass.
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It was an unusually mild winter, with so little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by way of the Birch Path.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 201 · C1
It had been a very mild December and people had looked forward to a green Christmas; but just enough snow fell softly in the night to transfigure Avonlea.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 194 · C1
She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 160 · C1
A shower of snow fell upon them, and, finding the Olive full of foliage, it settled upon its branches and broke them down with its weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 101 · B2

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