How to Use incremental in a Sentence

incremental

adjective
  • To be sure, that's incremental and not a slam dunk.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026
  • More than incremental steps will be needed to get back in the race.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But the coaches who spoke there are tired of progress that is incremental at best.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But in the three years after that, his progress felt incremental.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This is not an incremental change.
    Pranay Ahlawat, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The goal is not incremental change.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The goal is not incremental change.
    Zach Schenfisch, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The goal is not incremental change.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For us, this is very incremental.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Moore says incremental steps will help.
    Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 16 Feb. 2026
  • After that, they would be taxed on the incremental changes in value each year.
    Rick Rouan, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The caps in both leagues can increase if incremental revenue goals are reached.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 18 July 2025
  • But Headlee has some faith in the power of incremental change.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • And that incremental progress could come at a steep cost for employers.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2021
  • This incremental upgrade means the sensor should pull in more light and less noise in low-light scenes.
    Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • The brief thrill of incremental problem-solving kept them hooked.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Even so, both sides hope that incremental deals along the way will ease a path to an overall settlement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The more warning and the more incremental, the less backlash there is likely to be.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The agent who spoke to me described the interview as incremental truth telling.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That means that incremental share gains will be harder to sustain, Konik said.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But while the growth in the men’s field is incremental, the growth in the women’s field has been far more dramatic.
    Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • And critics say Frey has only signed on to incremental changes.
    Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The revamp for comfort is matched by an incremental increase in room between the knees and the seat ahead.
    Silas Valentino, Chron, 6 July 2022
  • The inner life and the outer life are parts of the same process of incremental improvement.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Just taking the tiny incremental steps.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Time and chemistry could lead to incremental gains that may solve a few of the postseason problems.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Now we’re focused more on the incremental impact.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The loans are tied to a tax incremental financing district at the Sears site.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But in the past, even the direst and rattling hacks have led only to incremental progress on the most basic best practices.
    WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
  • India has yet to be able to replicate that formula or to come up with one of its own that can achieve more than incremental gains.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023

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