ramify

Example Sentences

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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