snowballing
- present participle of snowball.
Example Sentences
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The trust was struggling to control rising costs that had sucked up its reserves, including a new, surprising culprit: the snowballing cost of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Badouard pointed to the so-called "network effect" that powered the snowballing of major platforms' user numbers as a factor now shielding them from competition.
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
This has resulted in a very positive snowballing of monthly benefits that wouldn’t have otherwise occurred.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
She felt as if her momentum was snowballing, and realized that with better time management, she could also take on a few more hours at work and make a bit more money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
By the time they finished snowballing Dorothy Gruzik’s house, it was nearly white, and Beans had forgotten that he was cold.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
