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Recent Examples of domino
The other big domino is general manager Chris MacFarland.
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Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
The next domino might be Alabama, where Governor Kay Ivey has called a special legislative session to redraw the state's maps less than three weeks before its primaries.
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Vann R. Newkirk Ii,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
That’s the first domino to fall.
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Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
1 May 2026
The latest domino to fall is Spirit Airlines, which is on the brink of collapse with no good options to avert it.
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Elaine Parker,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 2026
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Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
The next domino might be Alabama, where Governor Kay Ivey has called a special legislative session to redraw the state's maps less than three weeks before its primaries.
—
Vann R. Newkirk Ii,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
That’s the first domino to fall.
—
Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
1 May 2026
The latest domino to fall is Spirit Airlines, which is on the brink of collapse with no good options to avert it.
—
Elaine Parker,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for domino
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Virginia is set to ban law enforcement officers from wearing masks, allow certain criminal convictions to be sealed and strengthen tenant protections when new laws go into effect this week.
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Police are looking for two additional suspects, both men spotted fleeing the scene of Purvis’ shooting wearing masks and hoodies.
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The resident Manta Trust team has catalogued 150 individual rays and uses the world's first underwater contactless ultrasound scanner to check on pregnant mantas, while the Olive Ridley Project leads turtle research across Laamu Atoll.
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Watching a documentary about mantas, reef sharks, or this area is one thing.
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The veils of the universe have thinned.
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Lipa also wore a six-metre tulle wedding veil that was also hand-embroidered with beads and feathers.
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The connection to nature at Vista Celestial is truly profound, with wildlife waiting for you at the door—I'm not kidding, at one point, a capuchin monkey walked onto our patio to say hello.
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Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades.
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Will Ferrell repped Team USA with a jersey paired with a white visor.
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Other model-specific details include Union Jacks embossed onto the sun visors, an Earls Court 1951 logo stitched into the headrests, and a wooden gear shifter.
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The palatine tonsils are the ones seen at the back of the throat.
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During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.
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The resident of the house answered the door, and was met by a man wearing a gray sweatshirt and jeans, with a camouflage mask or bandana covering his mouth.
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Some of them wear face paint, camouflage uniforms, and ghillie suits — ducking in and out of foxholes cut into the ground.
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Some of the women had their hair covered in lace mantillas, an old Catholic custom.
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One of the hallmarks of its origins is a tile work from 1928 by Ernest Batcheler, an American artist of Dutch descent, that portrays a Spanish woman wearing a pink traditional Sevilla dress with frills, a shawl with fringe and a headpiece known as a mantilla.
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“Domino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domino. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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