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What is a domino effect?

What is a domino effect? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (figuratively) The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.
  2. (politics) The theory that, if South Vietnam fell to Communism, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, and additional South Asian countries.
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It is the domino effect or the ripple effect, whichever you choose.
Much harder to tabulate is the longer-term domino effect a Grexit could have.
Such an action would cause a domino effect among most other indebted countries, transforming most of the world almost overnight.
Chiefdoms and clans attacked each other from the east coast right up to the highveld, creating a domino effect and incredible human suffering.
And then it's like a domino effect, and it starts spreading throughout the world.
Critics who have long been calling for a tuition freeze say this would have a domino effect in the province and cause other schools to follow suit.

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