escalations

plural of escalation

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Noun
  • Other expansions that creators have leaned into include Fast TV, building hundred-person studios, leading national brand campaigns and beating traditional Hollywood in the box office.
    Forbes Press Releases, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • During his time at the Fed, the US economy experienced one of the strongest peacetime economic expansions in its history.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Budget includes limited tax increases The budget aims to increase state revenues by billions of dollars by reforming a tax on healthcare providers, imposing a sales tax for certain software products and limiting tax breaks on large corporations.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Another Napa standout is Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, founded in 1970 by Warren Winiarski on the Silverado Trail; its 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon famously beat French first-growths at the blind Paris tasting in 1976, putting Napa on the world stage.
    Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • The lake being so shallow opens it up to warming, excessive nutrients and growths of algae and other aquatic vegetation, which limits things like boating and fishing, staff said in the report.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • In some environments, workflows designed for speed begin slowing down again as manual review creeps back into the process.
    Patricia Camden, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • Giving this much power to women hopefully filters out the worst, impatient creeps.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • There were proliferations of bulbs that looked like something a pathologist might worry about and striations that might have been crops seen from above.
    Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Escalations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/escalations. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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