SNOWBALLED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

snowballed

verb

past tense of snowball

as in increased

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number the little problems we ignored began to snowball into huge headaches

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Recent Examples of snowballed But as his videos spread online, the response quickly snowballed. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026 The numbers snowballed as teachers grew to trust Danny Go! — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 29 May 2026 But exasperation took over, and the goals snowballed into a lopsided loss. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026 The warning quickly snowballed into one of the agency's more memorable social media campaigns. — Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Amazon Prime Day 2026 has snowballed into one of the best sales events the internet has to offer. — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 25 June 2026 The situation snowballed into what many viewed as a fractured relationship between Reese, her teammates and the front office. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026 What began as a tongue-in-cheek swipe against remarks made by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of India has snowballed into a satirical political movement on social media. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 May 2026 What had started with USC and UCLA’s departure for the Big Ten snowballed into an existential crisis by 2024. — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 1 July 2026

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And Harleys has entirely redesigned the rear -suspension and increased its travel 117 per cent to five inches (13 cm).

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
The share of workers with hybrid schedules has increased a bit, while the share in fully remote positions has only seen a slight decline.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 July 2026

Definition of increased

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Her five of fifty-eight party-line rulings swelled this term to thirteen of fifty-six.

— Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Over the last three years, DpHue has more than doubled its business in Ulta and Amazon, specifically, as the at-home color market has swelled 3 to 5 percent annually.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 June 2026

Definition of swelled

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Since his appointment to COO in 2018, the firm’s assets under management have roughly doubled, while its client base has expanded across new geographies.

— Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Companies that made the largest AI investment expanded entry-level job hiring by 12%.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026

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