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Recent Examples of decreasingly
Increasingly bitter about being cheated, and decreasingly able or willing to hide it, Rick exhibits erratic behavior that alienates his friends, his family, his band.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decreasingly
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The verdict capped an 11-day trial where Derulo and Spatola offered sharply different accounts of how the song was created.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
7 May 2026
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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz unleashed the biggest oil supply shock in history, sending energy prices sharply higher.—
Eleni Giokos,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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That’s being felt acutely by residents of Golitsyno, a small town in the Moscow region where most live on low incomes.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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Overtime for Los Angeles police officers, and any other major expenses, would be acutely felt by a city government that recently closed a nearly $1-billion budget deficit, in part by slowing police hiring.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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The number of incidents has since fallen steeply, but stricter controls that fall on airline staff isn’t enough for Ryanair’s O’Leary, who called for airports to take on some of the burden of policing passengers’ drinking habits, especially during early hours.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Their home values have risen steeply since the pandemic as part of the nationwide surge in residential prices.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Decreasingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decreasingly. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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