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
He describes it as a "big snowball effect".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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
Job losses on that scale will snowball into areas such as retail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Mostly action shots—a snowball fight—but I notice Hudson in the background, looking out of frame and laughing.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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
"Eight referees watch each match, where 180 snowballs can be flying" during a three-minute set, he explained.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
That’s because it provides a buffer against many surprise expenses that may wind up as credit-card debt, which is often hard to pay off and snowballs due to high interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
Did they even know how to make snowballs?
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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 said it was accepted that what had started in 2019 as a "misguided wish" on the part of the defendant to help friends and family then "snowballed" into something far larger.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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
On Jan. 8, the regime shut off the internet and moved to crush the snowballing movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 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
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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