snowball
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But these little small pacts start to snowball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
And once a selloff really gets going, it could snowball.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
The suit was filed on behalf of a Costco member in the state, Matthew Stockov, and seeks class-action status, meaning it has the potential to snowball into something bigger.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
He said apprentices would have "snowball" fights with asbestos and he knew of two women who died having probably inhaled particles while washing their husband's work clothes.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
Danielle, Anna, and I had just reached the other mound when we turned around and saw Peter fire the snowball.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
This process gives comets their fuzzy appearance and explains why astronomers often refer to them as "dirty snowballs."
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
Then some older kid would decide that this was personal, and within minutes it was a full campaign of snowballs and tackle football in our park turned blank white.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026
All that remained was to put rules down on paper, develop special helmets and invent a machine to mould the snowballs.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
That’s because it provides a buffer against many surprise expenses that may wind up as credit-card debt, which is often hard to pay off and snowballs due to high interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
Sometimes we’d have snowball fights by old First Congregational, and Joseph would defend from behind the Bridge Out sign, or sometimes we’d just lob snowballs at the bell.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
What began as a sharp reversal in highflying artificial intelligence stocks before the market opened snowballed into a broad market selloff that drowned the broader indexes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
“I’ve seen Los Angeles when it was beautiful, and what it has snowballed into,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
If she hadn’t acted, it might have snowballed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
That number only snowballed, and I nearly paused all my substitute teaching to keep up with demand.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
As these things often seem to happen, the disaster snowballed.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
The trust was struggling to control rising costs that had sucked up its reserves, including a new, surprising culprit: the snowballing cost of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Badouard pointed to the so-called "network effect" that powered the snowballing of major platforms' user numbers as a factor now shielding them from competition.
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
This has resulted in a very positive snowballing of monthly benefits that wouldn’t have otherwise occurred.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
Union bosses say teachers are under unprecedented pressure, suffering from snowballing demands, ever increasing workloads and, in many cases, burnout.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Things had been snowballing, fast, and I couldn’t pretend I wasn’t scared anymore.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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