snowball
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"I'm optimistic that we're all snowflakes in that snowball that's getting bigger and bigger."
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Job losses on that scale will snowball into areas such as retail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“I’m not saying there won’t be problems, but the problems won’t cascade and snowball into a bigger problem,” Blankfein said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
I was so mad I jumped up, pulled that snowball out of my pocket, and chucked it for all I was worth.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
Once those visual effects were corrected, the subtle streaks left by the "cosmic snowballs" began to appear.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
Video shows snowballs flying at them from multiple directions.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026
All that remained was to put rules down on paper, develop special helmets and invent a machine to mould the snowballs.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Many are ephemeral; fleeting leaf sculptures that blow away into the forest or giant snowballs placed in the city of London which melted to disclose sticks and stones.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Pinch howled and leaped up, mad, packed more snowballs together and set off after his laughing sisters.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Then, coupled with Cheah’s own social-media efforts, it snowballed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
What began as online outrage over exam scandals has snowballed into protests against India's education system, posing one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his third term in office.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
“I’ve seen Los Angeles when it was beautiful, and what it has snowballed into,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Over the six years since Carano started out, TV for dogs has snowballed.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
He plunged and snowballed and tumbled and laughed until the sky in the west turned fiery orange.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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 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
The U.S. lifeline has for now stopped a run on the peso that risked snowballing into a deeper financial crisis, economists say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Things had been snowballing, fast, and I couldn’t pretend I wasn’t scared anymore.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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