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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crescendoing
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The people were lodging complaints about the government's intensifying crackdown on the internet that has seen regular shutdowns of cellphone internet connections, blocked popular messaging apps and cut access to thousands of other websites and digital services.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Get ready to hear a lot more about El Niño during the next several months — and maybe even longer — as the infamous climate cycle returns again, developing and intensifying in the Pacific Ocean near the equator.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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The Moon — unlike Mars — does not have an atmosphere to supply carbon dioxide for growing algae, so the house-inflating fungi might have to be fed sawdust from Earth.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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That is propaganda, not just pushed by the groups who agitated for this specific war but also sewn by the massive war machine in DC that’s spent decades inflating threats to justify its continued existence.—
Connor Okeeffe,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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Mary Hayes, PhD, director of research of people and performance at ADP Research, tells Fortune that many workers may believe their current skill set won’t be valuable in a handful of years, heightening that feeling of uncertainty.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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The Iran war is heightening concerns over a looming food crisis in Asia.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Crescendoing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crescendoing. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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