domino effect

Example Sentences

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This has created “a domino effect that also strains hospitals and other care settings.”

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

According to Macquarie analysts, a few weeks of Hormuz closure “will create a domino effect of events that could push crude to $150 or higher.”

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

There is also a domino effect to estrangements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 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