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Recent Examples of chain reaction
Police reports indicated Rice was driving 119 mph in a Lamborghini Urus just before crashing and causing a chain reaction on a Dallas highway.
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Jesse Newell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Texas’s efforts have set off a chain reaction of other states on both sides of the aisle eyeing plans to draw new maps ahead of the midterms, including California, Ohio, New York and Missouri.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
That movie set up a chain reaction, prompting Lego collaborations with other kid-favorite franchises, including Unikitty, Spider-Man, and both Marvel and DC superheroes.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 25 Aug. 2025
My expectation is that it would be transported with the control elements fully inserted into the reactor to prevent a chain reaction from starting during transit.
—Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2025
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Jesse Newell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Texas’s efforts have set off a chain reaction of other states on both sides of the aisle eyeing plans to draw new maps ahead of the midterms, including California, Ohio, New York and Missouri.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
That movie set up a chain reaction, prompting Lego collaborations with other kid-favorite franchises, including Unikitty, Spider-Man, and both Marvel and DC superheroes.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 25 Aug. 2025
My expectation is that it would be transported with the control elements fully inserted into the reactor to prevent a chain reaction from starting during transit.
—Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chain reaction
Noun
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Costumed characters move in dreamlike sequences.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The arrow sequence, though, has a connection to video gaming, recognizably originating in a game called Helldivers 2, a science-fiction narrative similar to Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers that covers fascistic themes.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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With masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns, supermassive black holes are too massive to have been born from dying stars; instead, it is theorized that they are created when smaller black holes collide and merge, and a chain of progressively larger and larger mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The investment group also includes the Cherng Family Trust, the family office of the co-founders of the Panda Express restaurant chain, according to Friday’s statement.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Allen consistently had time to scan the field and go through his progressions.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The study demonstrated the varied progression of the disease among different individuals.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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One player dominating gets tedious very quickly; so does a string of one-time winners.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sanders battled against Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel in training camp and preseason and was ultimately named the Browns' third-string quarterback.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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That’s because congressional pay for rank-and-file members hasn’t been adjusted since 2009.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, critics and some rank-and-file officers remain unconvinced, accusing Mamdani of political opportunism as Election Day approaches.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this week, transit officials in North Carolina released a graphic video showing the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Zarutska on a light rail train.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some include the Madrid train bombings, where 193 died in 2004, the 2005 London tube bombings with 56 dead, and an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester where 23 were killed in 2017.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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In January 2024, a downsizing Groupon moved to smaller digs downtown, leaving a 300,000-square-foot hole in the onetime nexus of the Chicago tech scene.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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The nexus between these two instances is the California Public Records Act, a law which mandates disclosing certain documents held by the government agencies.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Zarutska, a refugee from Ukraine, had picked an empty row, and sat in front of a man in a red sweatshirt, unaware of the two’s imminent collision course.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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The trio of authors — thriller novelist Andrea Bartz and nonfiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson — who sued last year also sat in the front row of the court gallery, but didn’t address Alsup.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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