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as in waterfall
a fall of water usually from a great height the river forms a series of cascades as it drops a total of 200 feet in elevation

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Noun
Favorite gardens include Asian Valley, which features East Asian plants and water cascades, and the Louise Cochrane Rose Garden, a spectacle with more than 1,500 rose blooms. Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2025 The story of Sara’s alleged suicide is a cascade of low-probability events blurring together in a pool of statistical unlikelihood. Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
As for her glam, Ricci’s dark brown hair was styled with a side part and waves that cascaded past her shoulders. Julia Teti, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025 The economic spiral that followed the subprime mortgage meltdown, dubbed the Great Recession, proved devastating for millions of Americans and caused cascading economic problems around the world. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cascade
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Noun
  • Skies need to be clear, and any sort of haze or clouds could diminish or altogether stop the waterfall from glowing.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Individual work assignments are established through a waterfall process in which corporate strategies and initiatives are distilled into activities or projects that can be assigned to functional departments.
    Mark Settle, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • For Paramount+ Essential subscribers, episodes will be available to stream the day after the episode airs.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as on-demand, according to Paramount.
    Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • To this day, he's simultaneously praised as an icon and despised as a villain, depending on your beliefs.
    Tim Botos, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Poway Community Foundation plans to distribute more grants next year depending on how much is raised, Couvrette said.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The officer repeatedly instructed the elderly man to drop the gun, and when backup officers arrived and issued the same command, the man continued to aim the weapon at them.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The incident happened after 11 p.m. at the Shalala Student Center, according to a safety advisory issued to students by the university Monday afternoon.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Inspired by medieval Italian villas and farm houses, the Italianate house style typically features deep overhanging eaves with highly decorative brackets, or the element that carries the weight of the eave.
    Lauren Gallow, Architectural Digest, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Nothing would be overhanging his presidency; the case would be over without any remaining conditions on him.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Brown spent some time on the beach in Turks and Caicos with some friends before jetting back to LA for Sunday night's big show.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Simply swipe on your lipstick at the start of the day, then perhaps touch up before jetting off to happy hour drinks after work.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Vaccination Rates As reported by the CDC, the measles vaccination rate among children in kindergarten nationally has fallen since 2019, from approximately 95 percent of children receiving a two-dose MMR coverage to 92.7 percent.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The market also soured on Salesforce, which fell 4% despite topping analysts’ profit expectations for the latest quarter.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The beauty of this device is its hard-working design, which disperses any essential oil of your choosing through the air while spurting a continuous mist of moisturizing vapor in the air.
    Sarah Madaus, Allure, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Third quarter spurt, but Sixers respond The Kings moved to a zone defense early in the third quarter that seemed to flummox Philadelphia.
    Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Cascade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cascade. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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