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Recent Examples of domino
Suarez represents the last major domino to fall in a robust market for free agent closers.
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Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
Like a domino, the climate changes that would accompany an AMOC collapse could worsen drought in the Amazon and accelerate ice loss in the Antarctic.
—Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
Seattle fans can already envision a future where a one-loss Seahawks team wrests control of the division away from Los Angeles in early November, but Tampa Bay has to be the first domino to fall.
—J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Finally, the 4/4 domino fit nicely in Pink 17 and that was that!
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for domino
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The star also shared an adorable photo of the family’s matching Halloween costume, sharing an image of her, Luai, and Shammas wearing Batman costumes with masks and capes.—
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New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, issued early stay-at-home orders, imposed one of the first statewide mask mandates, and discouraged in-person church services.—
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The researchers believe the mantas are using nature's cues such as changes in magnetic field strength, oxygen concentration, temperature and light to navigate themselves onto the right path for the next days' travel.—
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The mantas are still spotted in May and October, but in fewer numbers.—
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View gallery - 6 images There are a bunch of dedicated devices that literally lift the veil of darkness to reveal a secret nocturnal world.—
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For years, Maryland’s sprawling nonprofit sector has operated behind a veil of secrecy that state leaders praise publicly but struggle to explain under scrutiny.—
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Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades.—
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The animals sent back included 11 lemurs, an albino Burmese python, giraffes, a pack of sheep, a pair of sacred ibises, two llamas, tamarins, a kookaburra, a gibbon, capuchins, several parrots, three ground hornbills, three cockatoos, a serval, a Poitou donkey, and a macaw.—
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Rinard Ford filed a patent for a new head-up display to be implemented through a car's sun visor.—
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Two men pushed Hodges against a wall; one man reached beneath his protective visor and dug into his right eye with his thumb.—
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Right after the holidays, the tween posted TikTok videos of her wearing the statement necklace with a blue camouflage jacket, black pleated skirt and a bright blue wig.—
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But hemagglutinin isn't just protein; the protein becomes partly covered in sugar molecules borrowed from the host cell (known as glycosylation), which act as a type of camouflage for the virus.—
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During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.—
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For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.—
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On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.—
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“Domino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domino. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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