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cascade

[kas-keyd] / kæsˈkeɪd /




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"Microglia are immune cells that, when they respond to plaques, kick off this elaborate cascade of inflammation, as if the microglia are partying all night, and keeping the brain awake."

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

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

If he does, the obvious destination is Mercedes, which would lead to a cascade of driver moves.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Operations leaders are trying to get ahead of looming problems and make quicker decisions about when to cancel flights, before disruptions cascade.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

A tall, beautiful woman with a lustrous cascade of honey-blonde hair stood beside the recess blowing on one of the many knots.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

On the kitchen walls, the “Lauenstein Yellow” tile cascades down into polychrome patterns.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

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

"Ripple et al. argued that carnivore recovery produced one of the world's strongest trophic cascades," said Dr. Daniel MacNulty, lead author and wildlife ecologist at Utah State University.

From Science Daily Feb. 12, 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

The study also demonstrated that these artificial neurons can be linked together, or "cascaded," into larger networks.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

An alert could have been cascaded to local GPs to be on the look out for cases as well as other local hospitals.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

Conuma’s production pause cascaded far beyond eastern British Columbia as it halted a railroad line, stalled activity at a Pacific Ocean port and complicated steelmaking schedules in Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

The loss ended in suitably ugly fashion for Tottenham as their frustrated players became embroiled in a clash with Villa after the final whistle as boos cascaded from the stands.

From Barron's Jan. 10, 2026

I stared up at the ceiling: gleaming white lines intersecting and weaving together into a twenty-four-sided star, which cascaded outward into interlocking diamonds as they followed the curvature of the inner dome.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

“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

In his Canberra speech, Burgess defended the agency as it faced "concurrent, cascading, and compounding threats", and revealed details of investigations into two antisemitic firebombings traced to Iran.

From Barron's 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

Claudine's limbs whiten like rice grains, and her hair explodes out from the braid I put in, hitting the floor in one cascading wave.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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