snowball
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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
But these little small pacts start to snowball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
“You can see it already starting to happen with AI, we are really starting to snowball really quickly now.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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
And that’s where our snowball picks up speed.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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
The mayor jokingly encouraged city school kids to throw snowballs at him for re-opening school after the blizzard.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
The goal: hit all seven players on the opposing team using perfectly spherical snowballs made with a special machine, or capture their flag.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
But Nick started laughing, and he threw his own snowball, which hit George, and just like that, everyone was throwing snowballs.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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
She said she thought the idea would "start as a couple of friends" but has since snowballed into a team of more than 40 volunteers.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 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
That number only snowballed, and I nearly paused all my substitute teaching to keep up with demand.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 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
On Jan. 8, the regime shut off the internet and moved to crush the snowballing movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
This has resulted in a very positive snowballing of monthly benefits that wouldn’t have otherwise occurred.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 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
By the time they finished snowballing Dorothy Gruzik’s house, it was nearly white, and Beans had forgotten that he was cold.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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