See ripple effect on Wiktionary
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"text": "Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.",
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"ref": "2022 February 22, Lananh Nguyen, Alan Rappeport, “Global Banks Poised for Turmoil as West Hits Russia With Sanctions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
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"sense": "one event instigating a set of other events",
"word": "漣漪效應"
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"word": "ripple effect"
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