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{
"etymology_text": "An allusion to a row of dominoes in which the fall of one leads to a cascade of falling pieces.",
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"ref": "2023 March 22, Philip Oltermann, “Switzerland’s national pride dealt heavy blow by the merger of its banking titans”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "While the move has, for now, calmed fears of a repeat of a 2008-style domino effect, the merger has left Switzerland with a new megabank on Paradeplatz square.",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "تأثير الدومينو"
},
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"roman": "dominoyi skzbunkʿ",
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"word": "骨牌效應"
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"sense": "chain of events",
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"sense": "chain of events",
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"word": "effet domino"
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"roman": "dominos epekṭi",
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"word": "დომინოს ეფექტი"
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"roman": "dominos ṗrinciṗi",
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"word": "დომინოს პრინციპი"
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"word": "Dominoeffekt"
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"word": "אפקט הדומינו"
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"word": "dominóhatás"
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"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "efek domino"
},
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"word": "kesan domino"
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"word": "efekt domina"
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"_dis1": "90 10",
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"word": "эффе́кт домино́"
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"roman": "princip domino",
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"word": "dominoeffekt"
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"sense": "chain of events",
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"word": "domino effekti"
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"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "hiệu ứng domino"
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"The theory that, if South Vietnam fell to Communism, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere."
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"(politics, historical) The theory that, if South Vietnam fell to Communism, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere."
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"word": "dominoteoria"
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"roman": "dominos teoria",
"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"word": "დომინოს თეორია"
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"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "تأثير الدومينو"
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"sense": "chain of events",
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"word": "ডমিনো ইফেক্ট"
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"word": "efecte dòmino"
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"word": "骨牌效應"
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"word": "დომინოს ეფექტი"
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"roman": "dominos ṗrinciṗi",
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"word": "φαινόμενο ντόμινο"
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{
"code": "he",
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"word": "אפקט הדומינו"
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"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "dominóhatás"
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{
"code": "id",
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"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "efek domino"
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"sense": "chain of events",
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"word": "effetto domino"
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"word": "efekt domina"
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"word": "efect domino"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "effékt dominó",
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"word": "эффе́кт домино́"
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"word": "принцип домино"
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"word": "efecto dominó"
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"word": "dominoeffekt"
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"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "domino etkisi"
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"roman": "pryncyp domino",
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"word": "domino effekti"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "chain of events",
"word": "hiệu ứng domino"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"word": "dominoteoria"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "dominos teoria",
"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"word": "დომინოს თეორია"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dominoeffekt"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fainómeno ntómino",
"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "φαινόμενο ντόμινο"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teoría del dominó"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "theory of encroaching communism",
"word": "domino kuramı"
}
],
"word": "domino effect"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": fainómeno ntómino vs. fainómeno ntómino",
"path": [
"domino effect"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "domino effect",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": fainómeno ntómino vs. fainómeno ntómino",
"path": [
"domino effect"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "domino effect",
"trace": ""
}
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