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Discover LudwigThe word "snowballed" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to an increase in intensity, amount, or scope, especially as a result of an initial action or event. Example sentence: After the project was successful in its early stages, investment and funding quickly snowballed.
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snowballed
verb
Past of snowball
Exact(60)
It snowballed from there and that was the start of Button and Bean, the precursor to [sister brand] Between you & i.
They started out offering the service for raves in the early 90s and things "just snowballed".
Over the past 60 years the number of events has snowballed to 98, of which 20 "cool" ones have been added since 1992.
Instead it has snowballed into a constitutional crisis that reveals the wobbly underpinnings of a democracy yet to be tested by a handover of power at the federal level.
In Lebanon, a row in a college cafeteria snowballed into running street battles between followers of rival Sunni and Shia parties; four were killed.
The thugs picketed Mr Podrabinek's house, demanding that he apologise to the veterans (they had brought some along) or leave the country for good.The scandal snowballed.
On December 15th police quietly tidied away the last of the barricades that had been set up in late September, when student-led protests calling for greater democracy snowballed into the longest and largest civil-disobedience movement in the territory's history (see article).
Their effort to find the truth has snowballed; now Mr Silva heads a group called the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, with branches all over Spain.
Criticisms, slow at first in coming, snowballed, shocking even Mao.
Barack Obama's approval ratings headed to the emergency room after the botched roll-out of his health-care reforms.In Turkey a protest against developing a park in Istanbul snowballed into nationwide demonstrations against the authoritarian tone of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
But press, police and opposition were having none of it: the story snowballed onwards.
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