ramifying

The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

As this beginning suggests, "Ajami" is a tale suffused with grit, the endlessly ramifying mess of urban life.

From Israel, A Humane And Honest Look At Life 2010

The grammatical energy that springs from these ramifying clauses--a packed syntax that would burst into a many-branched diagram on an English teacher's blackboard--expresses a corresponding energy of meditation:

Great Regulars: The sentence introduces a scene: Rus Bowden 2009

The grammatical energy that springs from these ramifying clauses--a packed syntax that would burst into a many-branched diagram on an English teacher's blackboard--expresses a corresponding energy of meditation:

Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

As we connect through these “ramifying webs,” we recognize the extent to which our lives affect others: animals, environments, people.

Writing from the Contact Zone: Posthumanism in literature and theory Lemon Hound 2009

And these kinds of things have ramifying consequences.

WHA errata Michael Turton 2009

To be in love means to be worldly, to be in connection with significant otherness and signifying others, on many scales, in layers of locals and globals, in ramifying webs….

Writing from the Contact Zone: Posthumanism in literature and theory Lemon Hound 2009

There is an extensive system of walking tracks ramifying throughout the reserve and a guide service is available.

Lord Howe Island Group, Australia 2008

Alterations in the food web structure of freshwater, estuarine, and coastal marine ecosystems, with ramifying effects on every trophic level

Inorganic nitrogen pollution in aquatic ecosystems~ causes and consequences 2007

The extension of the metaphor to the biological Tree of Life is apt: once the tree begins to come apart at its base, it is hard — maybe impossible — to stop the ramifying consequences.

The Memory Hole 2005