cascade
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At Maywood’s Riverfront Park, Ma was accompanied by the vroom of nearby traffic, cascade of a yucca rainstick and burbling hum of a water synth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
One involved mountain lions, deer, and plant life, a relationship known as a tri-trophic cascade.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
As the world awaits the findings on the devastating tragedy that claimed 260 lives, a cascade of formidable challenges has deepened the crisis at Air India.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
The trend is also fueled by a contradictory pairing: families’ fierce desire to protect their babies and a cascade of false information infused into their social media algorithms.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
First a cascade of shrew-like creatures with canine fangs, soaking wet, a dozen of them, and then a great horde of what looked like large green-horned squirrels, wailing and crying out—“Run! Run!” —as they went.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Advanced models can be copied in seconds and transmitted digitally, but centrifuge cascades can’t fit in a laptop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
"The longer it goes on, that kind of cascades into much bigger problems, particularly if there's not enough oil in general to run stuff."
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Early work focused on intracellular signaling cascades, then expanded into the study of transcription factors and gene networks that shape behavior in specific parts of the brain.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2025
The government puts $3 billion into the operation of the park service, and it gets a minimum of $12 billion directly back, and then that cascades through the economy.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2025
The fountain in the center cascades down a carved stone wall, flowing into a round pond full of koi.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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That cascaded through other stocks tied to artificial intelligence, with Micron Technology and AMD sliding 7.7% and 3.6%, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Her hair cascaded down her back in curls.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
This approach relies on cascaded second-harmonic generation within nonlinear crystals, producing UV-C pulses that last only femtoseconds, less than 1 trillionth of a second.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
“That’s the rumor,” she replied sarcastically, moments after the icons on her screen cascaded in glorious alignment, amounting to a sizable jackpot.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
George was kneeling at his head; Mrs. Weasley was lying across Fred’s chest, her body shaking, Mr. Weasley stroking her hair while tears cascaded down his cheeks.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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“The sequence was a complex, cascading process driven by a combination of long-term historical stress and immediate stress transfer,” Nalbant said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Holding a glass jug, Jorge Velazco Rocha crouches before a contraption of wooden barrels stacked in cascading fashion at his roadside tavern along the scrubby flanks of the Volcán de Colima.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Rather than being limited to isolated shortages, disruptions in one country or production stage can spread through the network, triggering cascading failures across multiple regions and industries.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
Osaka arrived on Court Suzanne Lenglen with a black corset and cascading pleated skirt that swept dramatically over the red clay.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
The magician scans the office, a stack of letters in one hand, a black velvet cape lined with shockingly white silk cascading behind him, expecting a paper-wrapped box or crate.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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