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Because the athlete has died, he will never see his record broken nor his fame diminished.
The word that could replace cascade and best maintain the author's intended meaning is "outpouring"
<h3>What is a Synonym?</h3>
This refers to the use of words that has a similar meaning to another word in a sentence.
Hence, we can see that your question is incomplete because you did not include the answer choices, so a general overview was given, but the word "outpouring" can be used to replace the word
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