How to Use butterfly effect in a Sentence

butterfly effect

noun

• So does this mean that the butterfly effect doesn’t exist at all?
  — Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
• Or could a simple act of kindness have been the butterfly effect that kept him from killing nine people?
  — Kathryn Burak, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• The butterfly effects of even a single make in those 23 misses could have been enormous.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 1 June 2018
• This is a butterfly effect that could result in a tsunami.
  — Brandon Hall, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• Can Barry get around the butterfly effect of his meddling long enough to make his family whole?
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
• But surely the butterfly effect of Hillary and Bill’s breakup didn’t prevent the widening of these major rifts in society?
  — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 19 May 2020
• For time travel without all the butterfly effect nonsense, take a drive to Bisbee.
  — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2024
• What would the butterfly effect be of wearing two different socks for a day, or brushing your teeth with the opposite hand?
  — Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
• There are so many levels to the butterfly effect of this pandemic—not just the sickness but the emotional and mental effects.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2021
• Call it the butterfly effect, as applied to fiscal spending.
  — Fortune, 5 Mar. 2021
• And who knows what kind of butterfly effect a loss there might have had in the tight NL wild card race, where, counting tiebreakers, the Diamondbacks finished two games ahead of the seventh-place Cubs?
  — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• In popular culture, it's best known as the butterfly effect.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• The digital butterfly effect is just the concept applied to the digital world.
  — Bob McKay, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• In this case, the butterfly effect could be significant.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2022
• Your acts of kindness can produce the butterfly effect as your kind behavior triggers more kindness throughout the world.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• The butterfly effect, there for all to see in every roadside murmuration.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• Well, in chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the phenomenon where a small change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2018
• Change one detail and, via the butterfly effect, all manner of subsequent ones also alter.
  — Darran Anderson, The Atlantic, 17 June 2018
• Straub is not so much concerned with time travel mechanics, the butterfly effect, or killing baby Hitler (or whatever the 1990s equivalent of that moral test would be).
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• In short, while the show and comics have had similarities and differences in the past, all these changes have created a butterfly effect that here in the finale, the show really cannot look remotely like the end of the comics.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• In the famous adage about the butterfly effect, the flap of wings from a butterfly in, say, Africa can aerodynamically affect the formation of a hurricane in, say, the Atlantic.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2021
• These were the accidents of history, the butterfly effect that ran through the three very different societies my pilgrimage had taken me to.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• In an odd occurrence of the butterfly effect, the bombing is the entire reason Balderrama pursued a career in law enforcement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• People may be familiar with the butterfly effect, the theory that a slight change can drastically affect the future.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• But because the star is nonchaotic, there is no butterfly effect; paths that converge stay correlated.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
• Some have argued that even tiny quantum nudges could nonetheless control brain activity, because of the butterfly effect: a small change might lead, indirectly, to a big one, in the complex system of the brain.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2013
• Unlike a Hollywood script where the butterfly effect takes cascading events and neatly organizes them, real life is less precise and messy.
  — Rod Berger, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• Out of the complexity of the global sand trade has emerged something of a butterfly effect, in which an economic decision in one place can wreak social and environmental havoc on the other side of the world.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2017
• To enjoy the film, audiences will have to let go of ideas of causality, the butterfly effect, alternate timelines or any of that good stuff that causes complications in time-travel stories.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Fans all over social media have made the connection between the butterfly effect and Stormi’s name, pointing out chaos theory in the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can create a storm somewhere far away.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 17 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024