cascade
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Shawna Dawson Beer, a longtime Altadena advocate, was glad this latest review acknowledged that it was “not just a chaotic night, ... but a cascade of failures.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Automated clinical decision support systems could be designed to recognize a possible prescribing cascade as it develops.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Firefighters climbed stairs and ran toward mortal danger, while a cascade of people tried as hard as they could to get down.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
But, he argues, it will create a cascade effect: People who move in will vacate other apartment buildings, easing the city’s supply crunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Its skin is coarse and blue, with ridges that cascade down its back like waves.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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When the fine-jewelry company Brilliant Earth sought a Reddit strategy manager to shape its presence in conversation “that cascades across search engines, LLMs, and customer decision-making,” for example, an alarm went off at r/jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
On the kitchen walls, the “Lauenstein Yellow” tile cascades down into polychrome patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
"Upvotes reward what a community likes, not what is true, so you can get information cascades, groupthink, and strong echo chambers in certain subreddits."
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Bailey almost thinks it is a statue, dressed in a white gown edged in matching fur that cascades beyond the platform to the ground.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The study also demonstrated that these artificial neurons can be linked together, or "cascaded," into larger networks.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
That risk has roiled Wall Street in recent days as a tech selloff has cascaded from software providers to chip firms to other companies linked to the data-center build-out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Her hair cascaded down her back in curls.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 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
The sound of it cascaded down on them, reverberated from one shore to the other, and utterly drowned out Bobby Moch’s voice.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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A rise in transit costs has a cascading effect on shipping prices, commodities and consumer goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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
The exemptions are, in some respects, similar to the treatment of manufacturers’ purchases on inputs to factories, which is designed to prevent cascading layers of the same tax on the same product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Highlights include an extraordinary park, cascading waterfall, structural feats and unique vantages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The keys chime and the floor creaks and she thinks she can smell threads of dust cascading from the ceiling.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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