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From January 2025 to this October, Tier 1 rates went from 22 cents per kilowatt hour to 27 cents, a 23% increase in a year and a half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

But while Coca-Cola’s Fairlife experienced a 78% increase in sales from a year earlier, Pepsi’s Muscle Milk fell 16%, according to Evercore’s analysis of Circana data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

That marks an increase of 156,000 people from the end of last year, and accounts for roughly 3.5 percent of Japan's total population, according to calculations based on government estimates.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

This increase in storminess is why the storm-naming season begins in September each year.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

One study suggests that the entire increase in the prison population from 1980 to 2001 can be explained by sentencing policy changes.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

DWP says its recent high bills are driven by spiking power use during the record-breaking summer heat, especially for air conditioning, not by rate increases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The chances of seeing a storm increases from late summer and throughout autumn with the peak of the season arriving in our winter months.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Students protested nationwide over conditions in schools on Friday, along with a teachers' union demanding wage increases and new hires.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Their strategy of “looking through” tariff-related price increases and supply crimps, amid robust demand, is now questioned by Fed officials themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

As it increases its pace, the sea itself seems to resonate with its movement, beginning to revolve in a slow eddy, but quickly picking up speed.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

These included the rising cost of living and increased demand for essential household items and practical support, it said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

She encouraged residents to take care of their neighbors during increased raid activity by offering rides to those afraid to drive or use public transit, delivering groceries or walking their neighbors’ children to school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

His government had already increased payments under Bolsa Familia, Brazil's flagship welfare program for low-income families, before the first round.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The number of units with approved building permits but not yet started increased 1.1% month-to-month to 143,929 units in September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attentions of the officers, to whom her uncle’s good dinners and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Deputy Louise Doublet said: "To have that taken away at a time when the cost of living is still increasing I think has been quite hard for some families".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Technical progress has benefited the customer without increasing the provider’s profit dollars on that sale.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Gold and silver futures settled lower after U.S. consumer price inflation for September landed above estimates, increasing market expectations for a Fed interest-rate rise this month and pushing the U.S. dollar higher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some of the resulting debris falls toward the black hole, temporarily increasing its feeding activity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

After four punishing wartime winters, the stranglehold of the Allied blockade was causing increasing hardship in Germany and growing demands for peace.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman