increasingly
English
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editFrom Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing + -ly.
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editincreasingly (not comparable)
- Increasing in amount or intensity.
- 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 747:
- After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide.
- 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 15:
- Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:
- As more and more people moved behind the increasingly larger walls, the fortress settlement evolved into the walled city.
- 2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, page 32:
- They will remind you that rail already faces fierce competition from cars, coaches, airlines, and (increasingly) remote working and videoconferencing.
- 2024 June 16, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The country where it’s still 2016”, in CNN[2]:
- So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, seven years and eight months “behind” much of the rest of the world? And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?
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editincreasing in amount or intensity
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