snowball

We learned that Darwin celebrated New Year’s Eve 1836 with a snowball fight in Cambridge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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, potentially creating all sorts of other problems down the line.

From MarketWatch ● 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

“Not me,” said Jack, molding a snowball in his hands.

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

Video taken Monday afternoon in Washington Square Park shows a snowball fight following an epic snowstorm devolving into some parkgoers apparently targeting police with snowballs.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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

The girls ducked as more eggy snowballs flew by fast and furiously.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

“Disagreeing and arguing about the business snowballed into arguing about everything. Down to like what’s for dinner,” she said in the episode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

"She was always going to get caught, it snowballed and she was never going to get away with it."

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

He plunged and snowballed and tumbled and laughed until the sky in the west turned fiery orange.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

Mr. Stratton’s tenant with two dogs presents a snowballing situation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Badouard pointed to the so-called "network effect" that powered the snowballing of major platforms' user numbers as a factor now shielding them from competition.

From Barron's ● May 9, 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

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