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INCREASINGLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

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Meaning:

Advancing in amount or intensity

Example:

she became increasingly depressed

Synonyms:

increasingly; more and more; progressively

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

increasing (becoming greater or larger)

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 Context examples: 

Today climate changes are happening at an increasingly rapid rate.

(Climate Change, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Increasingly the concept is used synonymously with race but this use trend has a pragmatic basis rather than scientific.

(Ethnicity, NCI Thesaurus)

At some point we were looking at increasingly less-plausible mechanisms, like if tectonic plates were rubbing against each other, could you get a plasma spark that generated phosphine?

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the quest to bring technologies closer to the end-user, one particular tool that is increasingly being used for wider purposes than those originally conceived is the mobile phone.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

These materials perform well together, which is why lithium-ion batteries have become increasingly popular.

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Liver transplantation is being increasingly used as well.

(Hepatoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

As other cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and myocardial infarction are in decline as causes of mortality, the heart failure problem becomes increasingly urgent.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

While many applications require increasingly small lasers, researchers continually run into the same roadblock: Nanolasers tend to be much less efficient than their macroscopic counterparts.

(Tiny, biocompatible laser could function inside living tissues, National Science Foundation)

Inappropriate expression of ARID proteins is increasingly implicated in tumorigenesis.

(ARID Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Wearable devices used to monitor a variety of health and environmental measures are becoming increasingly popular.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)