noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
effect
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It started a domino effect which exists even today.
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As top-tier schools are forced to become less selective, there will be a domino effect .
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The domino effect can work for us as well as against us if we play our cards right.
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Each of the organizational parts was working on its specific concerns, and no one analyzed the domino effect .
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What ensued was the by now familiar domino effect of emerging market crises.
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It would create a domino effect across the board.
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His farm lies next to Burnfoot and he fears approval for further planting there will start a domino effect throughout the valley.
■ VERB
play
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The bar was empty now except for a couple of old boys playing dominoes .
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But lately, lots of white guys have been trying to play dominoes .
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I don' want to play you bloody dominoes .
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There are also clusters of old men sitting around makeshift tables made of old boards and doors, playing cards and dominoes .
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Or a rum and blackcurrant to hand while he played dominoes .
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A hundred men were crowded into a little corner park, playing dominoes and cards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A domino game was cut short when one of the players clawed his jacket to shreds trying to ward off the spiders.
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A hundred men were crowded into a little corner park, playing dominoes and cards.
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But lately, lots of white guys have been trying to play dominoes.
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But things almost instantly began falling like dominoes.
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It started a domino effect which exists even today.
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Like a row of cascading dominoes, scandal followed scandal.
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There will also be a bring and buy and a session of bag dominoes.