snowball
Example Sentences
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And everyone thought he was crazy for thinking something as small as a butterfly could start a snowball effect capable of wiping out whole cities.
From Literature
Instead, the troubles stem from the firm’s big bet on technology lending, its heavy marketing of funds to individual investors—who tend to be flightier—and a series of missteps that snowballed out of control.
The impacts would snowball with a more sustained or severe move.
On Jan. 8, the regime shut off the internet and moved to crush the snowballing movement.
A failure to exert scoreboard pressure led to a snowball effect and a game that was quickly out of reach.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
