more and more

adverb

: to a progressively increasing extent

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Today, their role is increasingly active with more and more nations entering space and the private sector getting into the game. Space.com Staff, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2025 While more and more teams across businesses are deploying it, most still rely on it for tactical content generation, and not high-impact strategic tasks. Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 As more and more CEOs talk about the potential for layoffs in the AI era, how executives communicate about layoffs to their staff can... Harvard Business Review, 13 Aug. 2025 Since then, loss has seemed to him to pervade more and more of the world—in the form of extinctions and environmental crises, the lingering effects of the pandemic, and the devastation of the war in Gaza. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 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 20 Aug. 2025.

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