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He wanted to distance himself from the scams that he was seeing—and from the way he had watched this one minor detail in his life story snowball.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

A quick look at the numbers shows how interest payments are set to snowball, but short-term relief could be coming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"I'm optimistic that we're all snowflakes in that snowball that's getting bigger and bigger."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

But Fiona was worried that the virus could spread to other farms and that the problem could snowball in scale.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

There, on the front step of the house next door was a brown-haired, freckled boy packing another snowball and smiling evilly.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Once those visual effects were corrected, the subtle streaks left by the "cosmic snowballs" began to appear.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026

Then some older kid would decide that this was personal, and within minutes it was a full campaign of snowballs and tackle football in our park turned blank white.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026

"Eight referees watch each match, where 180 snowballs can be flying" during a three-minute set, he explained.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

That’s because it provides a buffer against many surprise expenses that may wind up as credit-card debt, which is often hard to pay off and snowballs due to high interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025

First I thought nothing was going to happen, because I could see big blobs of fuel coming out of the engine and disappearing in the distance, like a string of snowballs.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

The show's popularity snowballed and resulted in a big-screen adaptation, which also starred Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and O'Brien.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Then, coupled with Cheah’s own social-media efforts, it snowballed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

These have snowballed into huge high-stakes challenges where he gives away large sums of money to strangers.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

What began as a sharp reversal in highflying artificial intelligence stocks before the market opened snowballed into a broad market selloff that drowned the broader indexes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

As these things often seem to happen, the disaster snowballed.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Jason Arday, who made headlines when appointed as Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023, resigned Wednesday after the university announced a probe into snowballing claims he plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

The trust was struggling to control rising costs that had sucked up its reserves, including a new, surprising culprit: the snowballing cost of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

The report had the effect of snowballing losses, as the company had already disclosed problems impacting over 6,000 aircraft.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025

Union bosses say teachers are under unprecedented pressure, suffering from snowballing demands, ever increasing workloads and, in many cases, burnout.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Then, snowballing the rest of the clothes into one soft, conglomerate mass, she stuffed them out of sight under the bed.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath