escalate

Once you hit your 70s, the premiums escalate because you are closer to potentially needing such care.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

And the stakes escalate with each season’s finale, forcing Kate to test her limits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

These include failing to carry out "timely and thorough observations" of patients, then falsifying records "in the safe knowledge that staff on duty would not report or escalate the deception".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Patients used to start with a weak oral drug, fail it and then escalate to an injectable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It's time to think bigger, to escalate the pamphlet campaign, to enlarge his circle so that more Germans learn the truth.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Media coverage escalates the incident into a civic crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The situation escalates as the mariachi music begins playing and the couple approach a display of white roses and candles laid out on the grass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Even if the war in the Middle East escalates, strong expectations for earnings per share in the third-quarter financial reporting season, beginning in mid-October, should support stocks, as well as corporate credit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Over the following fortnight, the unrest escalates dramatically.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Doesn’t my opinion matter?” he asks one evening, before the conversation escalates to door slamming.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Over the weekend, as Stevens' criticism of El-Sayed escalated, a number of Democratic politicians in Michigan publicly encouraged her to end the feud and back the party's candidates more directly.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Tensions escalated after police were deployed around the tribunal and judicial and political authorities took steps affecting the court's leadership.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The kingdom offered financial support to cover government employees’ salaries in San’a during several years of relative quiet, but fighting resumed this summer and quickly escalated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

A promotion for the show “How to With John Wilson,” which he executive produced, escalated into a sketch about Fielder mentoring a group of influencers in a “TikTok Hype House,” even controlling what they eat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

This was no longer just a threat; things had escalated to a horrifying new level.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

With that cool, rainy Halloween now a memory, Santa Ana winds are moving into Southern California starting Thursday, bringing escalating heat and critical fire danger in mountain areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Clorox trimmed its full-year adjusted earnings outlook to the lower end of its $5.70 to $6 range due to escalating costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

“The escalating tensions could push oil prices, even if only briefly, to new yearly highs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Around 550,000 people took part in last weekend's demonstrations against rising fuel prices and the cost of living, with frustrations escalating after weeks of student protests.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Then the bells of the Elderclock rang out, loud and panicked, high and demanding, an escalating tide of echoes, climbing one on top of another, booming over the White Island, the ice moat, the wall.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo