cascade

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The trend is also fueled by a contradictory pairing: families’ fierce desire to protect their babies and a cascade of false information infused into their social media algorithms.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Ras inhibitors block a small protein that sits inside the cell membrane and acts as an on/off switch, setting off a signaling cascade that can make a cell grow or divide.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

The machine, a cascade of gold and silver-coloured cylinders descending through a cloud of wires, is a cryostat, a device that cools so much it slows activity even at the molecular level.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

He said the Fed’s policy was well positioned to wait and assess the economic fallout, but he cautioned that a cascade of one-off shocks can erode the public’s confidence that inflation will return to normal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

First a cascade of shrew-like creatures with canine fangs, soaking wet, a dozen of them, and then a great horde of what looked like large green-horned squirrels, wailing and crying out—“Run! Run!” —as they went.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell