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cascade

noun as in something falling, especially water

verb as in fall in a rush

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His remains are to stay in a cemetery outside Paris, but officers carried a symbolic casket draped in a French flag into the former church on the capital's left bank under a cascade of applause.

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That cascade of rule changes has made it harder than ever to predict who will be good from one year to the next.

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A series of "cascading overvoltages" - an increase in the electrical supply voltage above the established norm - was behind the outage, it concluded.

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It wasn’t any one thing, but more like a slowly mounting cascade.

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Visitors will encounter pollinator gardens alive with butterflies and hummingbirds, color-themed landscapes, and cascading water features, all designed to reflect the beauty of Southern California’s environment with scents of rosemary, jasmine and chaparral.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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