domino effect
noun
plural domino effects
: a cumulative effect produced when one event initiates a succession of similar events compare ripple effect
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Skipping or shifting injections has a domino effect.
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Alice Park, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
Create a positive domino effect, especially for small businesses.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024
But the prognosis, and how it was delivered, caused an emotional domino effect.
—Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
That domino effect could go on to fill the 7,000 job vacancies in the manufacturing sector in Ohio that were listed as recently as 2020.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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Alice Park, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
Create a positive domino effect, especially for small businesses.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024
But the prognosis, and how it was delivered, caused an emotional domino effect.
—Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
That domino effect could go on to fill the 7,000 job vacancies in the manufacturing sector in Ohio that were listed as recently as 2020.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Domino effect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/domino%20effect. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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