snowball

"I'm optimistic that we're all snowflakes in that snowball that's getting bigger and bigger."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

But Fiona was worried that the virus could spread to other farms and that the problem could snowball in scale.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

But these little small pacts start to snowball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

And once a selloff really gets going, it could snowball.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026

She made a snowball and heaved it at the house.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

Once those visual effects were corrected, the subtle streaks left by the "cosmic snowballs" began to appear.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026

Then some older kid would decide that this was personal, and within minutes it was a full campaign of snowballs and tackle football in our park turned blank white.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026

Video taken Monday afternoon in Washington Square Park shows a snowball fight following an epic snowstorm devolving into some parkgoers apparently targeting police with snowballs.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

All that remained was to put rules down on paper, develop special helmets and invent a machine to mould the snowballs.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

She used to throw snowballs at them and help them steal pies from the kitchen.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Then, coupled with Cheah’s own social-media efforts, it snowballed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

These have snowballed into huge high-stakes challenges where he gives away large sums of money to strangers.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Since the railway station canopy collapse in November 2024, which killed 16 people, calls for a transparent investigation into what happened have snowballed into a push for early polls.

From Barron's ● May 23, 2026

“I’ve seen Los Angeles when it was beautiful, and what it has snowballed into,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

As these things often seem to happen, the disaster snowballed.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Jason Arday, who made headlines when appointed as Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023, resigned Wednesday after the university announced a probe into snowballing claims he plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

This has resulted in a very positive snowballing of monthly benefits that wouldn’t have otherwise occurred.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

Union bosses say teachers are under unprecedented pressure, suffering from snowballing demands, ever increasing workloads and, in many cases, burnout.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

The U.S. lifeline has for now stopped a run on the peso that risked snowballing into a deeper financial crisis, economists say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

By the time they finished snowballing Dorothy Gruzik’s house, it was nearly white, and Beans had forgotten that he was cold.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli