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dominoes

/ ˈdɒmɪˌnəʊz /

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) any of several games in which matching halves of dominoes are laid together

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“It was sort of these dominoes falling,” he says.

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And when those wallets are stretched thin by inflation and rising food costs, the dominoes fall; more students slide behind, more schools absorb the unpaid tab.

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The dominoes have started to fall, with Newcastle's deal for Woltemade.

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Devastation begat devastation, as the ecological dominoes began to fall.

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She also invented card and word games and made dominoes out of scraps of paper, to keep their minds occupied.

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