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Recent Examples of chain reaction
The satire, sci-fi, and body horror movie follows a Chinese-American teenager (Shirley Chen), who, feeling insecure about her race, takes a drastic step that causes a chain reaction throughout her own and her family’s lives.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
These population shifts can cause what’s known as a trophic cascade, an ecological process in which a change in the population of a top predator affects other species lower in the food chain, triggering a chain reaction.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
According to Dallas police, Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at more than 119 mph before losing control and hitting the center median wall, triggering a chain reaction collision involving six other vehicles.
—George Ramsay, CNN Money, 28 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
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
These population shifts can cause what’s known as a trophic cascade, an ecological process in which a change in the population of a top predator affects other species lower in the food chain, triggering a chain reaction.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
According to Dallas police, Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV at more than 119 mph before losing control and hitting the center median wall, triggering a chain reaction collision involving six other vehicles.
—George Ramsay, CNN Money, 28 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chain reaction
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Anthony Whaley batted away a pass from Wood during a fourth-and-long sequence in the waning seconds, as his team held on to knock off the two-time reigning Div.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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The roughly five-minute sequence is shot in tight close-up on Day-Lewis, who oscillates between anger, pain and gleeful contempt.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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Still, the episode highlights how geopolitical supply-chain risk can materially affect production economics and timelines for any large-volume hardware program.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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None of that would have been remotely possible before the creation of the cold chain.—
James Sneed,
NPR,
26 Sep. 2025
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The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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The protection gave Mahomes ample time to work through his progressions regularly, resulting in at least one reception for nine different pass-catchers.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
29 Sep. 2025
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An invisible string to Nashville Watch Hill is a neighborhood district of Westerly, Rhode Island.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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In the past several years, Edge had filed a string of civil lawsuits with rambling, sometimes conspiratorial claims.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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The files depicted children ranging from 2 to 16 years of age.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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The largest bagel Guinness World Records has on file (868 pounds) was shown at the New York State Fair in 2004.—
Ayana Archie,
NPR,
27 Sep. 2025
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Whereas a rival might build four huge trains, VG’s new Plaquemines campus will soon count 36 modular trains when it’s completed.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
25 Sep. 2025
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Kyiv first stepped up drone attacks on Russian refineries, pumping stations and fuel trains in an attempt to disrupt fuel supply chains over the summer when demand is traditionally high as people drive more during vacation time.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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Set mostly in high-society Dallas – at the nexus of oil money, politics, religion, and crime – solving his beloved brother’s murder will take Jordan back to the streets, back across the border, back to an old alter-ego everyone, including him, had thought had been dead and buried.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
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But the restaurant has been the nexus for violence in the town that brands itself as one of America's safest cities.—
Robert Anglen,
AZCentral.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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This wooden foot massager roller features an arched design and rows of nubs to hit different acupressure points to provide relief.—
L. Daniela Alvarez,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Sep. 2025
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Streep, 76, sat front row at the show beside her costar, Stanley Tucci, who also appeared to be in character as Runway art director Nigel Kipling from the film, while former Vogue editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour — who famously inspired the role of Miranda Priestly — sat opposite Streep at the show.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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