Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
domino (game piece) or some aspect of one, especially the propensity to tumble in achain reaction .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most recent stock run-up came after a complex restructuring last year, involving a dominolike series of share sales among various Riady companies.
Money On The Move 2008
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The dominolike rows of housing blocks "had the air of empty theoretical speculations," wrote William J.R. Curtis, in "Modernist Architecture Since 1900."
Skyline Sculptor 2007
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This was the year that communism collapsed, dominolike, throughout Eastern Europe.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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House, the vacancy in Chicago's mayoral race could touch off a dominolike series of personnel changes at the White House.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The earliest European references to playing cards date to the 1300s, though a dominolike form emerged earlier in China.
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