domino
Example Sentences
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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
There are all these things that are a domino effect that you cannot predict.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
The latest blackout was due to an outage in a generating unit at one of the country's eight thermoelectric plants, triggering a domino effect in the system, according to authorities.
From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026
We kids played among ourselves or circulated among the various groups, observing the domino game, snatching boiled chicken hearts or livers, carrying mysterious messages from the older boys to the older girls.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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