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domino effect

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Domino effect

Etymology edit

An allusion to a row of dominoes in which the fall of one leads to a cascade of falling pieces.

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domino effect (plural domino effects)

  1. The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.
    • 2023 March 22, Philip Oltermann, “Switzerland’s national pride dealt heavy blow by the merger of its banking titans”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      While the move has, for now, calmed fears of a repeat of a 2008-style domino effect, the merger has left Switzerland with a new megabank on Paradeplatz square.
  2. (politics, historical) The theory that, if South Vietnam fell to Communism, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere.
    Synonym: domino theory

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