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cascade

[kas-kayd] / kæsˈkeɪd /




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Randy Cassingham, a passenger on board who runs a cruise blog, wrote that the disembarkation order followed a "cascade of problems".

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Morton describes the phenomenon as a "cascade" of tropical fires driven by rainfall disruptions associated with El Niño.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Critics of full-body scans, meanwhile, view them as unnecessary, citing low clinical yield and a cascade of follow-up scans.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, Verstappen was making his way up from eighth place after a qualifying session in which a cascade of problems had prevented him qualifying second to Russell.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

He clutched it in both hands, and drank from it deeply, then let the rest cascade over his head and body.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

When the fine-jewelry company Brilliant Earth sought a Reddit strategy manager to shape its presence in conversation “that cascades across search engines, LLMs, and customer decision-making,” for example, an alarm went off at r/jewelry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

On the kitchen walls, the “Lauenstein Yellow” tile cascades down into polychrome patterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

"Ripple et al. argued that carnivore recovery produced one of the world's strongest trophic cascades," said Dr. Daniel MacNulty, lead author of the new analysis and a wildlife ecologist at Utah State University.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 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

The fountain in the center cascades down a carved stone wall, flowing into a round pond full of koi.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The downpour cascaded into subway stations and flooded city streets in parts of New York and the Tri-State area, which also includes Connecticut, while some drivers abandoned their vehicles in rising water.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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

Her hair cascaded down her back in curls.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 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

Green leaves sprouted and, as they cascaded over the branches, pale moon-colored balls like pearls developed.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council of Foreign Relations, speaks of a build-up of cascading, competing crises in Europe, none of which have ever been properly resolved, he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Powerful waves thrashed communities along California's southern coast Friday, damaging homes and sending water cascading through streets as residents braced for more potential damage wrought by Tropical Storm Rachel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Los Angeles County uses a network of 27 spreading grounds, where artificial basins fill up when storms send torrents cascading down from the mountains into the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

At the same time, warming is destabilising permafrost - permanently frozen ground that can thaw as temperatures rise - and high mountain slopes, increasing the possibility of cascading hazards, the report says.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

We held hands because it seemed the right thing to do, circled around as the ground became mud and the rain fell harder, cascading down our faces, into our mouths.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago


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