Synonyms for domino effect
domino ef·fect

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1. domino effectnoun

   Synonyms:
   domino theory

Princeton's WordNet

1. domino effectnoun

   the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)

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1. • Consequence

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1. cause and effect

   one action leads to an event, which then leads to another, and another, etc.

   the words had a domino effect, one of the students realising the answer, and then another, and another...

   Submitted by acronimous on August 17, 2014  

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1. Juan Pappier:

   Adopting a law that legalizes abortion in a Catholic country as big as Argentina will energize the struggle to ensure women’s rights in Latin America, although there will certainly be resistance, I think it’s fair to predict that, as it occurred when Argentina legalized same sex marriage in 2010, this new law could have a domino effect in the region.

2. Lee Rowland:

   We are concerned that the above-mentioned bills are incompatible with international human rights law and would unduly restrict the possibility for individuals to freely exercise their rights to freedom of opinion and expression, and peaceful assembly, if adopted, the pending bills could have a domino effect on other states, leading to a general crackdown on protests in the United States.

3. Ernest Jones:

   This was a particularly odd, rare occasion where (there was) call after call for man down, obviously with symptoms of some kind of overdose, and at the time of getting that patient packaged and transported to the hospital, we’d see another immediately fall down, right there, at that point, we’d go help that patient, and while helping that patient, another person went down. So it became a domino effect.

4. Ron Magill:

   It's all so intricately connected, whether you're eating the food that is directly pollinated or you're eating something that depends on that pollinator, it's a domino effect.

5. Lewis Hamilton:

   I can't tell you what the team have come up with but they have come up with a lot of solutions, a lot of reasons for it being the way it was, the majority of them believe that at least one of the many reasons they came up with had a domino effect. So I'm confident that it's been understood but they will still continue to do analysis for sure.