SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
landslide
noun
An overwhelming victory or a very large majority in a vote.
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Overwhelming victory
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Usage distinction
Return to topA landslide is especially common for an election result; no fixed percentage is implied by the vocabulary term alone.
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See landslide in use
The chess club's new logo won the members' vote by a landslide.
The garden proposal won by a landslide in the simulated election, receiving eighty of the one hundred votes cast.
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