ramify
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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
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
Its roots went back much further and ramified through perhaps two-thirds of the 1,531,800 men now under arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a philosopher Hu Shih is one of the outstanding disciples of the ramified pragmatist, John Dewey.
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
Faleiro has a talent for ramifying plots and slippery characters — for a narrative that resists easy formulation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
In my case, these take the form of a steadily ramifying doubt that extends to every aspect of the journey.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 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
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