snowball
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Over the past few months, my debt began to snowball.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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
"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
Erin’s watching the Sixers game with Dad, and Pop’s shirt is all wet, which lets me know that she really threw a snowball at the old man.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
The marks left by the so called "cosmic snowballs" on Dimorphos suggest that debris spun off Didymos and later landed on its companion.
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
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
When schools opened again, kids ran in groups and made snowballs, which they then threw at passing buses, or at each other.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
At Bible study groups, family dinner tables and on group chats between friends, what was once an abstract concern to many snowballed into one of society’s most ominous threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
These have snowballed into huge high-stakes challenges where he gives away large sums of money to strangers.
From BBC ● 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
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 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
“It seems like at-bats are snowballing on us right now,” Kiké Hernández added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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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