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snowballed

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

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“Disagreeing and arguing about the business snowballed into arguing about everything. Down to like what’s for dinner,” she said in the episode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The governor said England's prisons have not been properly maintained for decades, and the problems have snowballed, creating "fragile infrastructure regularly breaking and preventing proper regimes from operating".

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Then, coupled with Cheah’s own social-media efforts, it snowballed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

What began as a sharp reversal in highflying artificial intelligence stocks before the market opened snowballed into a broad market selloff that drowned the broader indexes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

He plunged and snowballed and tumbled and laughed until the sky in the west turned fiery orange.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli