more and more

adverb

: to a progressively increasing extent

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While gold flowed west across the Atlantic, more and more people continued to arrive in America, causing the overall gold per person ratio to deteriorate. David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025 This felt unsurprising somehow, perhaps because Brady seems more and more like a resident of the uncanny valley himself. Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025 This is why more and more companies in the country are hiring older people, often within schemes that work with the government, the Bangkok Post reports, including the Central Restaurants Group (CRG), a chain operator that runs big names like KFC. Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025 The richest teams are spending more and more to distance themselves from everyone else, and there’s also a potentially ugly labor fight lurking after next season. Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 15 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for more and more

Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of more and more was in the 13th century

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“More and more.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20and%20more. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.

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