Definition of incrementnext

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Recent Examples of increment After overwhelming demand from fans, the residency soon expanded to an extensive 24 nights and will now run weekly in two-date increments from October 2026 through March 2027. Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2026 Young lawyers still toil over documents, billing their time in six-minute increments. Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 July 2026 Other flexible travel programs have a minimum transfer amount or only allow transfers in 1,000-point increments. Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 13 July 2026 People can watch short dramas on their smartphones in the tiniest increments of time at their disposal. Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for increment
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Noun
  • State leaders have introduced Assembly Bill 1383, which undermines crucial PEPRA guardrails, granting an unfunded pension benefit increase to first responders by reducing their retirement age.
    Zachary Christensen, Oc Register, 24 July 2026
  • Critics warn that dramatic increases could force small businesses to reduce hiring, automate more jobs, or raise prices.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • When businesses produced more value per worker, workers themselves tended to share in those gains.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
  • Daily Cardio Load gives runners an idea of how much to push in a day to maximize gains without burnout.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • Swelling from a razor-thin crescent into a cratered world before fading back into the darkness, Mars gave NASA's Psyche spacecraft both a spectacular view — and a 1,000-mph boost toward its namesake asteroid.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 22 July 2026
  • Burnham received a boost to his cost-of-living reduction agenda Wednesday when inflation fell to its the lowest rate in 15 months in June, buoyed by a drop of food and fuel prices.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • The adjoining high-rise, built in 1960, was expanded with a 16-story addition that horizontally bumped out the existing top dozen floors and put four more stories on the top.
    Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
  • These odds remain unchanged despite the addition of British ticket buyers.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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“Increment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/increment. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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