- present participle of cascade.
cascading
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Powerful waves thrashed communities along California's southern coast Friday, damaging homes and sending water cascading through streets as residents braced for more potential damage wrought by Tropical Storm Rachel.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Los Angeles County uses a network of 27 spreading grounds, where artificial basins fill up when storms send torrents cascading down from the mountains into the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
At the same time, warming is destabilising permafrost - permanently frozen ground that can thaw as temperatures rise - and high mountain slopes, increasing the possibility of cascading hazards, the report says.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
That has cascading ramifications for their suppliers and customers across economies such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
If there are any more, it could cause a cascading failure in the grid—and with so many electrical workers AWOL, there’s no telling when such a thing would be resolved.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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