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had snowballed

  • past perfect
    of snowball.
    snowball
    noun
    a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.

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Becky turned detective - and she discovered that reports of similar incidents nearby had "snowballed".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

What had snowballed was the volume of trading in Credit Suisse’s stock by small investors, which had roughly doubled from Friday to Monday, according to a gauge of retail activity from Nasdaq Data Link.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

So he was stunned to get a call to say the small early turnout had snowballed.

From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2021

But by then, the movement had snowballed to include demands for full democracy in the form of direct elections for the city’s top leader.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2019

They had snowballed each other in the garden, which, to a child who had been living in the warm boudoir of a pretty woman, was a very novel amusement.

From Jack 1877 by Mary Neal Sherwood