cascade
Example Sentences
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In a more pessimistic scenario, higher energy costs cascade through supply chains and inflationary pressures become broader.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Ras inhibitors block a small protein that sits inside the cell membrane and acts as an on/off switch, setting off a signaling cascade that can make a cell grow or divide.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
After huge equity issuance in the years preceding, there was a tidal wave of IPO lock-up periods expiring that created a never-ending cascade of selling, Jones recalls.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
It was the stuff of movie fantasy - a digger gouging earth on a building site suddenly revealing a cascade of gold.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
I’m happy to have found him...but it isn’t long until a thousand thoughts cascade through my head, bursting the levees that maintain my patience.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Vocabulary lists containing cascade
"The Ravine," Vocabulary from the short story
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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