quicklygrowingbiggeror moreimportant:Despite snowballingdeclinesin thestockmarket,theirsalessurgedin the firstquarter.(Definition ofsnowballingfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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snowballingWorkflows frequently pause (causingsnowballingschedule delays) for reasons that are sometimes essentially trivial, and unit costs rise.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The damage seems to increase from the first use of his second form,snowballingout of control by the time his third form is discovered.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thissnowballingprocess is paralleled by the expansion of the book's scale, describing more and more planets in less and less detail.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In some circumstances,snowballingdebt may be a better solution.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Consciousness seemed to behave like a phase transition between one unconscious stable state of low-level activity and another conscious state consisting ofsnowballingself-amplification and reverberation (p. 184).FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So once it was, it just became asnowballingthing and then that really got her out there and led to the acclaim and popularity of her work.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Otherwise, the sampling strategies had to rely on opportunist combinations of surveillance, local property lists, the membership lists and attenders of voluntary associations, andsnowballing.From theCambridge English CorpusParticipants recruited throughsnowballinghave been excluded from this table because they are a non-probability sample.From theCambridge English CorpusInitial meetings were arranged with key community leaders, leading to a 'snowballing' of suitable contacts.From theCambridge English CorpusInstead, the team decided to employ a combination of strategies which includedsnowballingand personal contacts.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/snowballing##
