How to pronounce “domino effect”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.
• (politics, historical) The theory that, if South Vietnam became communist, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere.

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