to snowball
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈsnoʊbɔl/
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acumularse
- Think about how changes like these could snowball into larger ones.
And it just, and then it's it snowballs into more and more issues.
- And it just, and then it's it snowballs into more and more issues.
- And so mistakes can kind of snowball and and get much and much, much larger.
- And then, yeah, things just sort of snowballed from there.
- So we kind of, it kind of just snowballed from one thing to the next.
- And I always say these little, not little, but these issues that some may deem small will domino and snowball into bigger, bigger problems.
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That debt brought another debt, and it began to snowball.
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I've been behind from day one, and now it's just snowballed.
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And then it starts to snowball from there.
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There is definitely a mental health crisis just snowballing in this country.
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After a month or so, I decided to develop my own site, and everything snowballed from there.
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However, once I took my first online course, everything snowballed from there.
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In the blink of an eye, the situation quickly snowballed out of control.
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It just snowballed on us and we were forced to take action.
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Which could just go to show that profoundly bad ideas will continue to snowball if left untreated.
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The project started small, but over time it began to snowball into a major initiative that involved thousands of people.
Synonyms
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4.1
To rise very quickly to a high level
Growing very quickly in size or cost
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Etymology
Snowball as a verb meaning to grow quickly comes from the picture of a small ball of snow rolling down a hill and getting bigger. So a problem or story 'snowballs' when it grows faster and becomes hard to control.