katamari

plural katamaris

1. Something which rolls up other objects, growing increasingly large.

   It's like a Katamari effect. It would take only the slightest hint of a revolution to roll it all up.

   2022 March 20, Douglas Palermo, 2021: A Year Inverse, iUniverse, →ISBN

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   ... a lawyer from Washington says he met Obama on Mars after listening to David Wilcock discuss jump rooms on UFOs, somewhere back behind all the extra details that have been tacked on at every point in this chain like a katamari

   2013, S Peter Davis, Occam's Nightmare, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 5

   Also, like a katamari, she tended to destroy things in her path. I would miss her. Hopefully marriage wouldn't change her too much.

   2017 March 14, Max Wirestone, The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss, Hachette UK, →ISBN

   Sunk costs snowball, like a katamari. The resources you have already spent make it less likely you will quit, which makes it more likely you will accumulate additional sunk costs, which makes it again less likely you will quit[…]

   2022 October 4, Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Random House, →ISBN