ramify

But in complex technological systems, small mistakes may rapidly ramify and compound into large problems.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2021

Perhaps surprisingly, the effects of the growth of the penal state ramify well beyond city streets, all the way, for instance, to the Gulf of Mexico.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2016

"Everything that could fork, ramify, coil, flutter, fold back or thread through itself," wrote Leigh Fermor of the Landsknechts, "suddenly sprang to action."

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012

The consequences of the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks of September 2001 will ramify for decades.

From Time ● May 24, 2012

I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Biodegradable yet tough enough to withstand hurricanes, leaves get their strength from their “skeleton,” a highly ramified network of fine veins made of a woody compound called lignocellulose.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 24, 2024

Despite his conflation of terms, Butler’s history is an indispensable account of a revolution in acting that ramified beyond the theater, even as he vacillates on whether the Method ever truly “died.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2022

The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between their arrival in Australia 40,000 years ago and the whites' arrival in 1788, their society ramified into hundreds of tribes and languages, thinly spread across a landmass almost the size of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The results are always more significant if the patient and I are alone when the psychosubstantiation tests are performed. External distractions have a deleterious effect on the ramified scores.”

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Even more cringeworthy are the exhumations of other ’80s and ’90s subcultures: pentagrams drawn on Trapper Keepers, unwieldy tubs of muscle powder, whiteboy ciphers drowning out Fugees CDs at backyard keggers in the ramifying burbs.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

The story Simonds originally told, about making old-fashioned, human-scale stories, had given rise to its own sequel, about ramifying digital exploitation.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2016

This is an essential truth, ramifying and growing deeper across America.

From Time ● Sep. 26, 2014

Franzen garlands his city and story in soot, smog, intrigue, and endlessly ramifying plot lines.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2013

The disagreement, which has ramifying political implications, is encapsulated by Amazonia, the subject to which I will now turn.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann