escalating

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, Americans are grappling with escalating costs for healthcare, gas, food and housing amid stubbornly high inflation.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

If so, they could function as a widespread system of natural earthquake brakes that prevents some ruptures from escalating into even larger events.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Now, after months of escalating controversies surrounding his leadership, Patel suddenly wants Americans to believe none of this is happening.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, which represents U.S. companies that operate in Europe, said a return to escalating trans-Atlantic trade tensions would harm companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

But things unspoken were the center of interest— the cause, the detectives were convinced, of Hickock’s escalating distress.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote