more and more

adverb

: to a progressively increasing extent

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Solomon said, in the current environment, with the promise of AI boosting Wall Street to new highs, the growth option is looking more and more realistic. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025 In 2025, more and more people will continue to fly outside their countries for vacation to have a smile makeover. William Jones, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025 But then every year, for example, with the countdown events in the years, the crowd that gathered in Shibuya, the percentage of non-Japanese citizens gathered there, the international crowd became more and more and more until maybe half of the people were international. Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2025 And that has led those countries to develop more and more sophisticated nuclear missiles to circumvent the boondoggle, which will be the golden dome, which our own experts say will not work. ABC News, 2 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 5 Nov. 2025.

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