snowballing

Example Sentences

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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

“It seems like at-bats are snowballing on us right now,” Kiké Hernández added.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

For Ariella Santoyo, owner of My Quince World, the crackdown's snowballing effect on a billion-dollar immigrant economy is reminiscent of Covid and how the pandemic devastated the area.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 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