CASCADES Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of cascade

as in waterfalls

a fall of water usually from a great height the river forms a series of cascades as it drops a total of 200 feet in elevation

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verb

present tense third-person singular of cascade

as in streams

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The multi-billion-dollar project will install 24 cascades of gas centrifuges at the National Enrichment Facility in Eunice. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026 Spearfish Falls is one of three spectacular cascades in Spearfish Canyon—even prettier dressed in autumn foliage. — Jacqueline Kehoe, Midwest Living, 19 Aug. 2026 What to See and Do The Lippi Falls (aka Liphi or Tad Somphamit), on Don Khone island, is one of the most impressive cascades on this section of the river. — Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2026 Additional cascades spinning would allow Iran to quickly enrich uranium under the mountain’s protection. — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 24 July 2026 The water system alone, which cost more than $7 million, features five lakes interwoven throughout the course that are connected by a network of flowing streams and punctuated by multiple cascades and waterfalls. — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Visit after a hard rain for the most dramatic cascades. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 June 2026 Wrapped around a rubbery bassline that Peter ran through a guitar amp and played straight into a laptop, the song is confident and brassy, sauntering around as Kellie Eden’s trumpet cascades from above and the band’s co-vocalists provide pop harmonies. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026 If one of Dwyer’s cascades, or any other process driven purely by the electric field, was seeding the lightning bolt, the proto-bolt would move perfectly in line with the electric field from the very beginning of the process. — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026

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For passengers awake early enough, that means watching steep mountains rise on both sides of the ship, passing waterfalls and small farms and seeing settlements gradually appear along the shoreline.

— David Nikel, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Despite its relatively small size, the Granite State packs in 83 percent forest cover, 353 waterfalls, two national parks, and Mount Washington, the Northeast’s highest peak at 6,288 feet.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026

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Xi has said fighting against corruption is essential to the party’s survival, and its ability to stay in power depends on strict discipline and political loyalty.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
The timing of any major new construction projects in the UAE which rely on freight arriving by sea depends on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

— Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026

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Moore said older patients can become disoriented and delirious after long periods in the ER, raising the risk of falls.

— Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
For the next eight years, Holmes lay dead at the bottom of the Swiss falls while Doyle branched out into historical fiction, science fiction, horror tales, and medical stories.

— Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

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The President frequently jets down to his Palm Beach property on weekends.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
Instead of Paris this time, the film jets off to another fabulous destination besides New York — Milan — for a huge fashion expo where Lady Gaga gets to perform and even exchange swipes with Miranda.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026

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The rising federal debt is expected to push up interest rates as the government issues ever-larger numbers of Treasury bonds in an effort to fund federal spending.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
That’s a pretty specific number; the intelligence community almost never issues such precise figures, instead offering ranges of plausible guesses.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026

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Antinous attempts to shrug off the token’s return, but seemingly recognizes it, and realizes in full that Odysseus has returned for revenge when the man strings his bow.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
From Key Largo to Key West, the Overseas Highway strings the islands together like beads, running past lighthouses, underwater coral reef parks, and across the postcard-worthy Seven Mile Bridge.

— Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026

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