snowballing

That future is now starting earlier than the coach planned at USC, with the Trojans desperate for any spark that might stop their disappointing season from snowballing any further.

It’s much sicker than other similar countries, and the situation is getting worse, snowballing into a health, social, medical, economic, and potential budgetary crisis.

Their amiable weekly conversations cover the latest aviation news — recent subjects have included the aborted JetBlue and Spirit merger, the wave of multimillion dollar refurbishments across U.S. airports and of course Boeing’s snowballing woes.

To break these bonds, additional chemicals have to be added at each stage, resulting in a 'snowballing effect', in which the only way to recycle the material is to make more of it.

Opposition to the test is snowballing, driven in part by concerns it is unnecessarily cruel given its spotty results.