- present participle of increase.
increasing
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had little success trying to coax long-dated U.S. government bond yields lower by increasing buybacks of this type of debt.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
But increasing shipments from other producing countries, such as Egypt and Nigeria, have nearly filled the shortfall, and prices have stabilized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Previous research found that increasing the temperature by 12°C caused a tenfold increase in the number of honey bees leaving their nests.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to human-driven climate change, which is warming the world's oceans and increasing the frequency and intensity of damaging bleaching events.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
On the other hand, if you’ve got an increasing force on the ball, x might equal something like t3/3.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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