cascade
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Once generated, retinoic acid activates a receptor inside the cell nucleus, launching a signaling cascade that changes gene activity.
From Science Daily
Fit, stylish, with long, cascading hair, their faces smooth, their teeth white, their makeup modern and flawless.
His design included waves of metal cascading down the sides of an asymmetrical building, described by some as sheets of toilet paper descending from the sky into a canyon.
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
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
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