It was a very slow process that eventually snowballed into my getting flown various places. The discussion began to gain momentum and soon snowballed over a number of days. When the issue snowballed into a raging controversy, school management denied any external pressure. Though Dean lagged in early endorsements, he acquired many critical ones as his campaign snowballed. The fallout from Lehman's failure snowballed into market-wide panic. Conspiracy theories implicating Greer reportedly "snowballed" after publication of "Behold a Pale Horse". He continued trading attempting to recoup the loss; however, the loss snowballed. Within days, events snowballed, and Whitney and his company would both declare bankruptcy. Once we had them locked up other victims spoke out and it snowballed from there. This soon snowballed into an Earth-threatening incident as both entities tried to outdo each other. This was the initial declaration of war that snowballed into World War I. The strike soon snowballed to bring other dockers across the region into the fold. White said the reception of the idea "snowballed from there". Some extended trees or "forests" have snowballed.