as in cascade
a fall of water usually from a great height I used to like to throw sticks in the stream and watch them go over the waterfall

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Recent Examples of waterfall There’s a variety of bathing experiences available on-site, including a cascading waterfall. Mia Taylor, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025 Here, Ne Zha 2 succeeds wildly; locales such as a heavenly city made entirely of jade and a towering, bamboo-verdant waterfall are rendered with genuinely beautiful texture and detail. Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025 During their nighttime surveys, researchers found several unfamiliar-looking lizards near a waterfall, the study said. Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025 What should have been an easy question quickly triggered a waterfall of questions. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for waterfall
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cascade
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  • Nicholas is especially attuned to how the distortion of visual perception can trigger a cascade of runaway mental and physical responses.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The easy 1-mile route takes hikers under the bridge—past the spot where George Washington allegedly carved his initials into the rock when surveying the land—and then out to Lace Falls, a 50-foot cascade.
    Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Waterfall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waterfall. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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