increase
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Raising the cash rate to 4.35% last month, the RBA said the third straight interest-rate increase would give it time to weigh the Iran conflict’s impact on the local economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Those probes will help determine if the current 10% tariff on many countries will hold steady, increase slightly, or return to the levels determined before the Supreme Court’s decision.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
The measure would also reduce the cap on the annual increase in assessments of non-homestead properties—such as second homes and rental properties—to 5% from 10%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
His cost for liquid fertilizer climbed to $435 per ton this year, he said, up from $265 a year ago — an increase of more than 60%.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Reactors like the ones at Fukushima Daiichi increase the likelihood that those pinging neutrons will hit another uranium 235 nucleus by slowing them down.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing increase
"Siberian Survivors" and "Tigers in the Wild"
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Arithmetic, List 1
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Unit 17, Lesson 2
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