chain reaction

Example Sentences

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“When these ideas in real-time started happening, it became a chain reaction, a domino effect,” Reigns said.

From Seattle Times

The Biden administration’s public push is part of a larger effort by the Biden to ensure that individual bank failures can be contained without triggering a chain reaction across the wider financial system.

From Washington Times

But most tragically, they abandon principle and humanity, and set off a chain reaction that ends up returning refugees to persecution.

From Los Angeles Times

The bank’s failure set off a chain reaction that has coursed through the global banking system in the weeks since.

From New York Times

The bank’s downfall and the chain reaction it set off is also likely to result in a broader push for stricter bank oversight.

From New York Times