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. The Hong Kong actor:

   Don't ever think you won't get addicted, because not only are you hurting yourself ... your one drug addiction will hurt your family, in order to earn money, you'll steal, you'll rob. In the end, you're hurting your country, you're hurting your family, you're hurting your son ... it's a domino effect.

2. Barron Segar:

   Pre-COVID years, we talked about famine, but it was relatively rare, today, we have this domino effect of climate and COVID and cost and conflict, and they're all beating up on each other.

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. Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn:

   It cannot be ruled out that Brexit leads to a domino effect in Eastern Europe.

5. Antonio Rodriguez-Barberan:

   We are targeting a sales announcement for the A400M this year, we hope this will drive a domino effect.