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dominolike en · ADJ

Etymology

From domino + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a domino (game piece), especially in having the propensity to tumble in a chain reaction.
   • Any failure in the cableway system would have a dominolike effect on the entire project, upsetting the pouring timetable, snarling rail traffic […] 1990, Joseph E Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure:
   • He also feared that Vietnam's fall would lead to dominolike communist successes in Southeast Asia. 1991, Eric Foner, John Arthur Garraty, The Reader's companion to American history:
   • This same event was repeated in a dominolike sequence as motorists on both sides of the road hastened to undo their automatic reaction […] 2008, Sandi Ault, Wild Indigo:

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