domino
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He says that balance is “100% a predictor of longevity” partly because it initiates a domino effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
That failure trapped the 12-story building in an undetected, slow-motion domino effect that ultimately claimed 98 lives, concluding something that many engineers had long suspected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The team combined field work, seismic and satellite data to reconstruct a domino chain of events and trace the height of the wave.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
This has created “a domino effect that also strains hospitals and other care settings.”
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
She wanted to read more but it was getting dark, and Robbie and the domino warriors were waiting for her at the mural.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Near it is an incomplete set of animal-bone dominoes, carved from kitchen waste by Napoleonic prisoners of war with time to kill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
If they slow the pace of their capital spending, construction contractors with comparatively weak balance sheets could feel the pain quickly, among other financial dominoes ready to fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Fidgets, weighted blankets, sensory dens and noise-cancelling headphones were on tap, as well as activities including chess and dominoes.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
When she’s not writing, she enjoys playing dominoes, sewing and spending time at the beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Behind him, the other firemen were sitting around the table with their dominoes.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Objects like dominos and leaves, which figure into the history of Caribbean imperialism, are fashioned from steel and wood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
While the dominos are falling at the parent company, these will fall short of triggering a collapse.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
"We hope, via the model, we can simulate this chain reaction to understand how to stop it, like a hand in between the dominos tiles," says Sansavini.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
All-time temperature records fell like dominos throughout the region.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2023
According to the Domino Theory, which dominated American foreign policy during the Cold War, countries were like dominos standing on end.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing domino
"The American Pageant," Vocabulary from Chapters 36-37
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"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Chapter 22
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