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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

"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

Over the years, this memorable, round figure became a shorthand for a portfolio that could snowball into a large sum of money.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

I thought it was Peter, because he threw the snowball.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

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

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

"Our ancestors were surely doing the same thing. It's the oldest winter sport in human history: long before skating or skiing, humans were already throwing snowballs at each other. That's its biggest appeal."

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

They had completed their snow fort and were building up a supply of snowballs for the coming attack.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

The governor said England's prisons have not been properly maintained for decades, and the problems have snowballed, creating "fragile infrastructure regularly breaking and preventing proper regimes from operating".

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

The protests have since snowballed into a revolt, marked by calls for Paz's resignation, just six months after he took office.

From Barron's ● May 20, 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

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

“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