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A Belfast High Court judge temporarily blocked it on Saturday, warning that the long-running dispute could escalate across Northern Ireland and urging the parties to "step back from the abyss".

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

I don’t want to escalate too quickly and create pressure, but I also don’t want to miss opportunities by hesitating too long.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Oil futures fell $3.40, or 3.2%, to $102.43 a barrel amid hopes that conflict in the Middle East would not escalate further.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But according to Messenger of the Jenesse Center, “when no action is taken, the violations inevitably escalate and become more and more serious.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

That’s when the Space Race began to escalate.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

Over the following fortnight, the unrest escalates dramatically.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Attempts at diplomacy have floundered as fighting escalates on several fronts across Africa's third-largest country.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

WSJ: As an ACC school, Louisville certainly doesn’t have equivalent resources, as the table stakes for being competitive escalates, to Big Ten or SEC schools, whose conferences are billion-dollar businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

But sometimes she escalates before I even know if the situation calls for escalation.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

At a Dallas therapy practice, it divided in-laws and escalated into firings and lawsuits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

According to Unicef, roughly 3.2 million children in Yemen were out of school even before the war escalated last month.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The hours-long stand-off escalated on Monday night as demonstrators decried the sentencing of Kosovo's former president, Hashim Thaci, who was last month sentenced to war crimes committed during the 1990s war for independence against Serbia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests escalated in June 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Unbelievably, things had escalated even more during the night.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Oil prices fell after settling higher in the previous session, as traders weighed supply risks from escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Saudis’ escalating fight with the Iran-backed Houthi militants poses new challenges to the country’s security and plans to transform its oil-dependent economy, according to the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Naung Yoe, meanwhile, told the BBC that "these practices are escalating due to increasing difficulties in meeting monthly recruitment quotas and the lucrative financial profits made from recruit trading at the ground level".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The negotiations follow months of rising tensions between the 27-nation EU and the Asian powerhouse that risk escalating into a full-blown trade war.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The intensity with which the family undertook the defense had a self- perpetuating and escalating force: Reggie denied texting, the family backed him up, and Reggie, never someone to let others down, dug in deeper.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel