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Recent Examples of chain reaction
The most prominent offshoot is that there is a chance of being able to instigate a chain reaction of intelligence.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Black bag, my dear — her work trip sets off a chain reaction in which George’s strength, i.e., faith in their relationship, becomes his weakness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
To get the monomers to link together, a lone electron – or free radical – initiates a bond with a monomer, triggering a chain reaction.
—Aaron Priester, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2025
The bioweapon causes a chain reaction, demolishing planets and wiping out an entire quadrant in space.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Black bag, my dear — her work trip sets off a chain reaction in which George’s strength, i.e., faith in their relationship, becomes his weakness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
To get the monomers to link together, a lone electron – or free radical – initiates a bond with a monomer, triggering a chain reaction.
—Aaron Priester, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2025
The bioweapon causes a chain reaction, demolishing planets and wiping out an entire quadrant in space.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chain reaction
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The report, which did not include a cause for the crash, noted that the exact sequence of the aforementioned events is still being examined.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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On Des Moines’ first attacking sequence after halftime, Feilhaber was fouled in the box to set up a penalty kick.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
20 Mar. 2025
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Artificial Intelligence will soon take fast-food orders at 500 major chains including Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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The Cheesecake Factory menu gets a makeover The casual dining restaurant chain is ditching 13 menu items and replacing them with 20 new dishes and cocktails.—
Jade Walker,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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Roese pays it forward by running a girls camp in St. Louis every summer, and has seen how the progression of the women’s game has helped support her younger sister Joy Dunne and her Ohio State Buckeyes teammate Makenna Webster, who also hails from the region.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The new guidelines suggest that the progression to 120 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity should be personalized, gradual and based on individual symptoms.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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With its methodical lunar exploration program, dating to 2007, China has had a string of successes with robotic missions, including last summer's return of samples from the far side of the Moon.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 2025
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Meow Wolf New York: The Santa Fe, N.M., company, which runs a psychedelic string of immersive art exhibits, will build its first East Coast outpost in downtown Manhattan.—
Sasha Arutyunova,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Creative works: Include writings, artwork, design files, coding projects or any other personal or professional creative work.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
22 Mar. 2025
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The files also contain the unredacted personal information—including Social Security numbers—of dozens of people, seemingly published accidentally, though the National Archives site now suggests this was an inevitable result of the transparency effort.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2025
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Stuck in traffic or on a train after a stressful workday, try mentally clocking out by focusing on your in-breath through your nose and out-breath through your mouth.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Hickey, who still lives in Castro Valley, would watch Foreman train.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Stephen writes about the nexus of technology, science, policy, and business on and off the planet.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2025
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This translation function unlocks so much energy and value because so many of an organization’s areas for reinvention and innovation sit at the nexus of different functions or domains.—
John Sviokla,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Alabama is in the Elite 8 for just the third time in school history but second season in a row.—
Tim Casey,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Bobcats won eight in a row before losing, 2-1, to the Huskies in the CT Ice semifinal on Jan. 14, 2025.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Chain reaction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chain%20reaction. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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