The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Players try to clear their screen of coloured blobs by lining them up and popping them, creating chain reactions called 'dairensa'.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The victory of Haiti’s enslaved people over France won independence for that nation in 1804, setting a series of chain reactions in motion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
By suppressing radical chain reactions with fuel compounds during the combustion process, the polymer semi-solid electrolyte effectively inhibits the occurrence of battery fires.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
This book covers people and events from early 20th century discoveries leading to the creation of nuclear chain reactions, through the Manhattan Project and the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
If Arp is right, the exotic mechanisms proposed to explain the energy source of distant quasars—supernova chain reactions, supermassive black holes and the like—would prove unnecessary.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
