snowballing
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsnəʊbɔːlɪŋ/usquicklygrowingbiggeror moreimportant:
Despite snowballingdeclinesin thestockmarket,theirsalessurgedin the firstquarter.
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Workflows frequently pause (causingsnowballingschedule delays) for reasons that are sometimes essentially trivial, and unit costs rise.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The damage seems to increase from the first use of his second form,snowballingout of control by the time his third form is discovered.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thissnowballingprocess is paralleled by the expansion of the book's scale, describing more and more planets in less and less detail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In some circumstances,snowballingdebt may be a better solution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Consciousness seemed to behave like a phase transition between one unconscious stable state of low-level activity and another conscious state consisting ofsnowballingself-amplification and reverberation (p. 184).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So once it was, it just became asnowballingthing and then that really got her out there and led to the acclaim and popularity of her work.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Otherwise, the sampling strategies had to rely on opportunist combinations of surveillance, local property lists, the membership lists and attenders of voluntary associations, andsnowballing.
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Participants recruited throughsnowballinghave been excluded from this table because they are a non-probability sample.
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Initial meetings were arranged with key community leaders, leading to a 'snowballing' of suitable contacts.
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Instead, the team decided to employ a combination of strategies which includedsnowballingand personal contacts.
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