- present participle of increase.
increasing
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Rising prices point to the Fed increasing borrowing costs before Christmas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Scientists suspected that larger deer populations would allow more female ticks to reproduce, eventually increasing the number of young ticks capable of spreading the infection.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Previous climate summits have yielded new targets for countries to follow on cutting fossil fuels, increasing money for developing countries and protections for forests.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Others, especially in the six states that still restrict NIL activity before college, think allowing teenage athletes to cash in on their personal brands takes the increasing professionalization of amateur sports too far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Those squeaky hinges were the answer to everything, they explained the inexplicable, they wiped out the contradiction between Gebu’s innocent daytime behavior and his mysteriously increasing wealth.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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