increase
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Economists forecast a 3.8% year-over-year increase in the PCE, which is the Federal Reserve’s favored gauge of inflation.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
Core CPI sped up on a three-month seasonally adjusted basis, imported inflation accelerated and there are early signs of broadening price pressures, as evidenced by the increase in inflation pervasiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
“It has been a steady increase in the amount of money going to outside groups,” said Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Publicly, though, Biden’s principal stated rationale for moving the state up was to increase racial diversity in the earliest voting states and reward Black voters for their significance in the Democratic Party coalition.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
Their method was, first, to increase the prestige of their own soldiers by taking away the prestige of the infantry.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing increase
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Arithmetic, List 1
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Unit 17, Lesson 2
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