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also racheting (up)
as in bumping (up)
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Unlike traditional top-down mentoring that focuses on building up younger employees, reciprocal models enable experienced employees to stay relevant in a changing world.—
Britton Bloch,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Even the normally surefire element of a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, with its blasts of dissonance pumping up the squirm factor, adds to the heavy-going effect of a movie that seems to go out of its way to be grating.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025
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The company started pumping up its website during the pandemic when people were not shopping stores.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Ratcheting (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ratcheting%20%28up%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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