snowball
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He wanted to distance himself from the scams that he was seeing—and from the way he had watched this one minor detail in his life story snowball.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
But all such initiatives bring rules and regulations, which snowball and never melt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I'm optimistic that we're all snowflakes in that snowball that's getting bigger and bigger."
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
But Fiona was worried that the virus could spread to other farms and that the problem could snowball in scale.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
But Nick started laughing, and he threw his own snowball, which hit George, and just like that, everyone was throwing snowballs.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
The marks left by the so called "cosmic snowballs" on Dimorphos suggest that debris spun off Didymos and later landed on its companion.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
Video shows snowballs flying at them from multiple directions.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026
"Eight referees watch each match, where 180 snowballs can be flying" during a three-minute set, he explained.
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
January third was a day for snowplows and snowboots, snowballs and sleds.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
“Disagreeing and arguing about the business snowballed into arguing about everything. Down to like what’s for dinner,” she said in the episode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Then, coupled with Cheah’s own social-media efforts, it snowballed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
She said it was accepted that what had started in 2019 as a "misguided wish" on the part of the defendant to help friends and family then "snowballed" into something far larger.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
As these things often seem to happen, the disaster snowballed.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Jason Arday, who made headlines when appointed as Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023, resigned Wednesday after the university announced a probe into snowballing claims he plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
It’s been a wild ride for the pair, but despite their snowballing fame, they swear they’re like any other dad and daughter who bicker, joke around and simply enjoy each other’s company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The U.S. is rushing to build infrastructure to stay ahead of China in the AI race, but consumer backlash is snowballing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The report had the effect of snowballing losses, as the company had already disclosed problems impacting over 6,000 aircraft.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
Then, snowballing the rest of the clothes into one soft, conglomerate mass, she stuffed them out of sight under the bed.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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