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Recent Examples of domino
But the Cardinals defense was also banged up, as their cornerbacks had been going down like dominoes.
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Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2025
Each part begins at the same moment, showing the same game of dominoes, and covers the same time period, but from a different character’s point of view.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
After this declaration, the diplomatic dominoes fell in rapid succession; other Arab states joined what became known as the Abraham Accords, culminating in a signing ceremony at the White House one month later.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
The $85 billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger may have just seen another domino fall in its favor.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
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Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2025
Each part begins at the same moment, showing the same game of dominoes, and covers the same time period, but from a different character’s point of view.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
After this declaration, the diplomatic dominoes fell in rapid succession; other Arab states joined what became known as the Abraham Accords, culminating in a signing ceremony at the White House one month later.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
The $85 billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger may have just seen another domino fall in its favor.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for domino
Noun
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Shop the Laneige lip mask that editors and celebrities both use, plus the Covergirl lip gloss that plumped up Kelsea Ballerini’s pout during a PEOPLE photoshoot.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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Gossip fed the frenzy of the Salem Witch Trials and has been the subtext of one too many fables where mischief masks moral rot.—
Oriel FeldmanHall,
Time,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The mantas are still spotted in May and October, but in fewer numbers.—
Taylor McIntyre,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
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Also like Lynch, Robinson’s onscreen world hums with quiet dread, a sense that something sinister lurks just beneath the veil of the everyday banal.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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As the days shorten, leaves fall, and the earth prepares to rest, the veil between the physical and spiritual realms thin.—
Raquel Reichard,
Refinery29,
7 Oct. 2025
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Their helmet visors use copper and indium tin oxide coatings for heat and glare control, while a head-up display provides real-time data inside the visor.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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A couple in their sixties, the oldest of the passengers, wearing camping backpacks and sun visors, declined many offers from men with four-wheelers who wanted to drive them to their hotel, as the island had no real cars.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Iredell County Animal Services (ICAS) warned residents in the Troutman area on Wednesday, Sept. 17, that a capuchin monkey is on the loose.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
21 Sep. 2025
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His name is Frankie, a capuchin monkey who has lived in his cage in Pet Stop for nearly two decades.—
Madeline King,
Kansas City Star,
29 July 2025
Noun
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Investigators collected the camouflage jacket at the hospital as evidence.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Inside, a camouflage-like green marble countertop anchors the kitchen.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
8 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Allison Stanger,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2015
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For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.—
Sarah Khan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2020
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On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.—
Klara Glowczewska,
Town & Country,
30 Mar. 2015
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“Domino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domino. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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