swells (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of swell (up)
as in increases

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  1. increases
  2. augments
  3. escalates
  4. amplifies
  5. compounds
  6. expands
  7. inserts
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  • Leaders should ask whether a new location grows the customer base, deepens existing relationships, or increases purchase frequency or spending enough to offset channel substitution.
    — Ayşe Çetinel, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But the price of doing so is constantly rising, as technology increases the range and magnitude of horrible possibilities.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of increases
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  • That’s the process of a centaur, who gets to choose and direct the technology that augments his work.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Technology that augments humans spreads prosperity, but technology built to imitate and substitute for them concentrates it.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of augments
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  • Time returned to a senior person, decisions made with better information, work that no longer escalates.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • If the Hormuz crisis escalates in its next phase and prices soar, Washington may face greater political pressure to restrict oil exports in the belief that doing so will cushion domestic prices.
    — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of escalates
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  • An agent amplifies whatever data it's given, faster than a person would.
    — Tammy Hawes, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Nor can it be secured through repression, which amplifies alienation, fuels anger, and breeds broader resentment toward the Pakistani state.
    — Aqil Shah, Time, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of amplifies
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  • Excess construction materials exported from China, together with Chinese construction services, helped casinos, special economic zones, and scam compounds develop rapidly in Southeast Asia while supporting Chinese export revenues.
    — Alvin Camba, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2026
  • An executive’s experience naturally compounds over the decades.
    — Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of compounds
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  • This new effort expands on individual airline trials to try mitigating contrails across an entire flight corridor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Under the new partnership, the companies will work together to develop, finance and produce original features, formalizing an ongoing creative relationship as Watch This Ready expands its slate across independent and studio-backed projects.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of expands
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  • The Relic chip, of course, is the impetus for the main storyline of Cyberpunk 2077, where V inserts the experimental tech that contains the soul, in effect, of a real person.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In honor of that legacy, Michelson often inserts Indigenous sovereignty into historically fraught public spaces.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of inserts
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