Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for escalations
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It’s survived trends, closures, expansions, contractions and Charlotte’s constant identity shifts.—
Timothy DePeugh,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026 -
This could be one of two major expansions of vocational education in the district.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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Success, Guerra said, will depend in part on whether the county will contribute its portion of the property tax increases, and on officials’ ability to attract new, for-profit businesses to the area.—
ANNIKA MERRILEES,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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But so did a Platte County measure to cap future property tax increases, which still has a court batle before it.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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Researchers have proposed several explanations, such as the fact that Black women have higher rates of fibroids—noncancerous growths that can interfere with embryo implantation, the delicate process by which an embryo burrows into the uterine lining and stays there.—
Sarah Elizabeth Richards,
Scientific American,
2 Apr. 2026
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To achieve their audacious goals, the fish use hook-like growths on the undersides of both their pectoral and pelvic fins to push themselves upward.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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Everybody on the right creeps left, and everybody on the left creeps right.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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Artemis 2 rocket creeps along toward launch pad NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket, the second-ever Space Launch System booster, is slowly making progress along the 4-mile journey to its Florida pad at Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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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 9 Apr. 2026.
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