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Recent Examples of chain reaction
Leyes describes today’s threat landscape as a chain reaction.
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Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
He got caught too high in the zone during a chain reaction of Rangers mistakes that also included a poor change, Trocheck overcommitting to the puck carrier on the Kraken zone entry and no one picking up Catton backdoor.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
While uranium-235 atoms occasionally split on their own, the conditions at Oklo allowed these rare events to cascade into a sustained chain reaction.
—New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
In the clip, a man is seen swinging a golf club and sending the ball flying into the net — only for the impact to trigger a chain reaction that causes the entire netting to collapse.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
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Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
He got caught too high in the zone during a chain reaction of Rangers mistakes that also included a poor change, Trocheck overcommitting to the puck carrier on the Kraken zone entry and no one picking up Catton backdoor.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
While uranium-235 atoms occasionally split on their own, the conditions at Oklo allowed these rare events to cascade into a sustained chain reaction.
—New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
In the clip, a man is seen swinging a golf club and sending the ball flying into the net — only for the impact to trigger a chain reaction that causes the entire netting to collapse.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chain reaction
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The sequence of Enoch among the heavenly hosts, violent, shattering with Blakeian geometry and color.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Yong Woo cuts her off with a hug, thanking her for hesitating because of him, and the two walk on into a slo-mo sequence, laughing about Ji Seon’s Busan dialect.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The chain, of course, is known for its 24/7 operating capacity.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
25 Jan. 2026
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All available buses will be outfitted with chains on their tires, but articulated ones will be removed from service for safety reasons.—
January 25,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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Crawford recently threw his first bullpen of the winter and is currently on a normal throwing progression.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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If these results are confirmed in more trials, the observed slowing of progression could translate into several additional years in which people retain better control of their movements.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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This reduces manual sorting, improves consistency, and accelerates VDR setup, which is particularly valuable when dealing with thousands of files.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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But most have been slow to adopt, and Content Credentials are often stripped as files circulate online.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2026
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Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who is eager for another round of Regency-era declarations of love, unrealistically high standards of romance and string covers of pop music to feel alive again.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The game against the Kraken wasn’t the most egregious of the Leafs’ latest string of losses, but at this point, moral victories hardly matter.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Apparently, the Meyers in Long Beach were ruled unfit as guardians, or Lynn refused to go back to them, so juvenile authorities located some blood relatives, possibly her father or half sister, and put her on a train back East.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Commissioned by a non-profit called Clean Cities (and delivered by market research company, OpinionWay), the survey sought to understand how urbanites feel about public transport – metro, tram, train, buses and robotaxis – in locations like London, Berlin, Warsaw and Rome.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Starfleet Academy is another nexus of debate and division.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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The group is planning to finance, create and sell content at the intersection of sports and culture—the very nexus Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin has sought to dominate via apparel, trading cards and sports betting.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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The actress wore pieces from the Tiffany Knot collection, including a double row necklace in rose gold with diamonds, earrings in rose gold with pavé diamonds, double row ring in rose gold and two double row rings in rose gold with diamonds.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
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The show’s initial cast, all of whom were writers as well, featured a murderer’s row of comic talent in Candy, Joe Flaherty, Levy, Andrea Martin, O’Hara, Harold Ramis and Dave Thomas; Moranis joined later in the show’s run, as did Martin Short.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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