increments

plural of increment

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of increments 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 On Friday, someone reopens the dashboards, reallocates budget by hand in 20-minute increments stolen between meetings and writes a learning into a doc that may or may not get reused. Marvin Abdel-Massih, Forbes.com, 8 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 They can be scaled in modular increments from single digit to hundreds of megawatts. Vinod Khosla, Fortune, 30 June 2026 It can be renewed in increments of up to 18 months if the homeland security secretary deems conditions unsafe for return. ABC News, 26 June 2026 Split up focus time into 5-minute increments with breaks in between and longer tasks into small chunks. Liz Regalia, Parents, 23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for increments
Noun
  • The 2026 tournament has instituted significant ticket price increases, and overall growth in media rights and sponsorship fees may push the tournament’s revenues close to $700 million this year.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • Consider the case of Wells Fargo , a stock with a price-to-earnings ratio of 12 that had a quarter that was roundly disliked by the analyst community, despite some perfunctory price target increases.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • But Gunther said there were idiosyncratic boosts, such as for event tickets and gambling with the World Cup.
    Alex Harring,Sarah Min, CNBC, 21 July 2026
  • The compulsion to seek out fun in summer heat is driven by a mix of biological boosts, social conditioning, and psychological relief from winter confinement.
    Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

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“Increments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/increments. Accessed 26 Jul. 2026.

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