increasingly

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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Recent Examples of increasingly The role of women as senior or lead pastors is increasingly one of the top issues being debated within Southern Baptist circles. Duane W. Gang, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025 Words once too blue to publicly utter have become increasingly commonplace. Matt Richtel, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025 Linda may stretch, but not infinitely, and as her nerves fray, her every relationship—old and new—becomes increasingly unbearable. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025 Whisker Labs’ data, which does not provide conclusive evidence about how a wildfire began, could play a pivotal role in helping to determine the cause of the Eaton fire, which increasingly has focused on possible electrical failures on the transmission network in Eaton Canyon. Ivan Penn, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for increasingly 

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“Increasingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/increasingly. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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