domino effect
Example Sentences
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While the company has the means to fight in court, the domino effect from thousands of other pending cases could dampen investor enthusiasm for big AI advances.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
“A few weeks of Hormuz closure will create a domino effect of events that could push crude to $150 or higher,” Macquarie analysts wrote in a Friday research note.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
The selloff may have been exacerbated by a domino effect of investors trying to front-run selling their shares, in Gastwirth’s opinion.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
It helps avoid a kind of domino effect involving other swing states, including Ohio to the north and Pennsylvania to the northeast.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2025
If just one of them moved, I thought, the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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