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sets off – causes something to begin or start a chain of events
- escalate – to become more serious or powerful
- contend with – to struggle to deal with a difficult or challenging situation
- swathes – very large areas or amounts of something
- lives up to – meets expectations or reaches a predicted level
- bargained for – expected or prepared for something in advance
- shatter – to completely break or destroy something, often a record
- spike – to rise suddenly and dramatically
- cope – to manage a difficult or stressful situation successfully
- piecing together – slowly collecting and combining different pieces of information to understand something