cascade
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Once inside the park before 8 a.m., their first stop was the Bridalveil Fall Trail, a short trek that takes visitors right to the base of the thundering cascade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
One involved mountain lions, deer, and plant life, a relationship known as a tri-trophic cascade.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
If he does, the obvious destination is Mercedes, which would lead to a cascade of driver moves.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Inflammation can heal, but if impacts are repeated it may result in a destructive cascade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
A cascade of perfect movements, with hundreds of brilliantly calibrated actions, coursed through the mechanical man.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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On the kitchen walls, the “Lauenstein Yellow” tile cascades down into polychrome patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Advanced models can be copied in seconds and transmitted digitally, but centrifuge cascades can’t fit in a laptop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
"The longer it goes on, that kind of cascades into much bigger problems, particularly if there's not enough oil in general to run stuff."
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
"Upvotes reward what a community likes, not what is true, so you can get information cascades, groupthink, and strong echo chambers in certain subreddits."
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
But the detonation creates some tectonic shift in the building’s rubble, and there is a snap followed by multiple cascades in the darkness.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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An alert could have been cascaded to local GPs to be on the look out for cases as well as other local hospitals.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Conuma’s production pause cascaded far beyond eastern British Columbia as it halted a railroad line, stalled activity at a Pacific Ocean port and complicated steelmaking schedules in Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
The loss ended in suitably ugly fashion for Tottenham as their frustrated players became embroiled in a clash with Villa after the final whistle as boos cascaded from the stands.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
This approach relies on cascaded second-harmonic generation within nonlinear crystals, producing UV-C pulses that last only femtoseconds, less than 1 trillionth of a second.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
The whole stack cascaded down to the carpet, skidding toward the wall.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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“The sequence was a complex, cascading process driven by a combination of long-term historical stress and immediate stress transfer,” Nalbant said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Rather than being limited to isolated shortages, disruptions in one country or production stage can spread through the network, triggering cascading failures across multiple regions and industries.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
Osaka arrived on Court Suzanne Lenglen with a black corset and cascading pleated skirt that swept dramatically over the red clay.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
She sat at her ease in cascading black net sprayed with diamonds.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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