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as in gradual
proceeding or changing by steps or degrees
the incremental evolution of the collection from a specialized gallery into a comprehensive art museum
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as in cumulative
produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things
the incremental total for my collection of baseball cards
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Recent Examples of incremental
Children with disabilities deserve more than incremental fixes.
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Victoria Mejicanos, Time, 7 Jan. 2026
Outside China, YouTube, Meta and ByteDance’s TikTok capture most of the incremental spend, while inside China the market is led by Douyin, Kuaishou and Tencent.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
The Dodgers have more than a dozen Japanese sponsorships, including some newcomers in the past two years—All Nippon Airways, Daiso, Kosé, Kowa, Toyo Tires and Yakult—all part of a new corporate push that SponsorUnited estimated added $70 million in incremental sponsor revenue last year.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2026
According to Hisense, the common thread across these launches is color accuracy rooted in spectral precision rather than incremental brightness gains.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
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Victoria Mejicanos, Time, 7 Jan. 2026
Outside China, YouTube, Meta and ByteDance’s TikTok capture most of the incremental spend, while inside China the market is led by Douyin, Kuaishou and Tencent.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
The Dodgers have more than a dozen Japanese sponsorships, including some newcomers in the past two years—All Nippon Airways, Daiso, Kosé, Kowa, Toyo Tires and Yakult—all part of a new corporate push that SponsorUnited estimated added $70 million in incremental sponsor revenue last year.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2026
According to Hisense, the common thread across these launches is color accuracy rooted in spectral precision rather than incremental brightness gains.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incremental
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This time around, her wavy lob is cut at a soft, gradual angle, so that the front dips only slightly longer than the back.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
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Through food rewards and gradual trust-building, the birds learn to travel in a crate and to sit on a perch and a glove during a program.—
Beth Lipoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Jan. 2026
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As of late 2025, cumulative shipments of the 587Ah platform have exceeded 2 GWh.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Traditional television, meanwhile, is forecast to decline by a cumulative $8 billion as linear advertising and pay-TV subscriptions continue to erode.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Incremental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incremental. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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