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escalate

Definition for escalate

verb as in increase, be increased

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In recent months, her years-long feud with fellow New York rapper Cardi B escalated in them trading insults about each others' careers and family members.

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“Preliminary investigation indicated that both parties may have been involved in a verbal dispute that reportedly escalated into a physical dispute during an inbound flight to Atlanta.”

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Investigators began looking into Muran after officials received several reports that he was exhibiting “concerning and escalating behavior,” including interactions at or near East Sacramento schools, sheriff’s officials said in a statement.

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Out on the waves, where freedom of navigation is a golden rule, the ability and appetite of coastal countries to intervene is limited, even though the risk they face is escalating.

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Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated after the Lebanese group fired rockets at Israeli positions the day after 7 October 2023.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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