"katamari" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "It's like a Katamari effect. It would take only the slightest hint of a revolution to roll it all up.",
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          "ref": "2022 October 4, Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Random House",
          "text": "Sunk costs snowball, like a katamari. The resources you have already spent make it less likely you will quit, which makes it more likely you will accumulate additional sunk costs, which makes it again less likely you will quit[…]",
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