escalate
Example Sentences
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Since June, when immigration enforcement escalated in Los Angeles, he has attempted to conduct several oversight visits there but was denied access.
From Los Angeles Times
Seeking compensation of that scale is likely to escalate tension between Ottawa and North American automakers, whose share of automobile production in Canada has declined steadily in the past decade.
"Following the reported defect... Engineering has escalated the matter to Boeing for priority evaluation," the internal company note said.
From Barron's
A weakening job market and escalating geopolitical tensions also forced crypto investors to rethink their riskier holdings.
This was before the situation in Minnesota escalated.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
