as in progressively
more and more; to an increasing degree
People are becoming increasingly aware of this problem. Increasingly, scientists are questioning the data. The situation grew increasingly hopeless.
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One of the most noxious of former President Joe Biden’s leftover regulatory rules applies to partnerships — an increasingly common form of business organization and expansion.
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Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
And at home, some graduates are finding their experience abroad is raising red flags with employers, who are increasingly casting a suspicious eye over graduates trained at foreign universities worldwide.
—Joyce Jiang, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Seattle’s direction is becoming more difficult to discern, a question that increasingly hangs over the team.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
The North Korean government is increasingly executing civilians, including people found to be consuming unapproved foreign media, according to a report from the United Nations Human Rights Office.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
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Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
And at home, some graduates are finding their experience abroad is raising red flags with employers, who are increasingly casting a suspicious eye over graduates trained at foreign universities worldwide.
—Joyce Jiang, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Seattle’s direction is becoming more difficult to discern, a question that increasingly hangs over the team.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
The North Korean government is increasingly executing civilians, including people found to be consuming unapproved foreign media, according to a report from the United Nations Human Rights Office.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for increasingly
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With masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns, supermassive black holes are too massive to have been born from dying stars; instead, it is theorized that they are created when smaller black holes collide and merge, and a chain of progressively larger and larger mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Seizures or other involuntary movements ensue, progressively getting worse as the person loses more control over their body.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Increasingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/increasingly. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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