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
“Even without additional launches,” he writes, “the chain reactions of continuously colliding objects in orbit bring the possibility of creating even more circling debris.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
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
Scientists call it “tickling the dragon’s tail,” Custer said, because the experiment approaches but stays below the stage at which the fission of nuclear materials sustains an ongoing series of chain reactions.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
In the end, though, the control rods were in and the chain reactions had been paused.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
