increasing

Definition for increasing

adjective as in becoming larger

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accumulating, augmenting, booming, broadening, enlarging, flourishing, maturing, multiplying, proliferating, snowballing, sprouting, swelling, waxing, widening

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getting big, piling up

adjective as in becoming more intense

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accelerating, deepening, escalating, growing, intensifying

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accentuating, advancing, building, emphasizing, heightening, sharpening

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building up, dominant

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Despite tax and National Insurance receipts increasing, they were outstripped by higher spending on public services, benefits and debt interest, the UK statistics body said.

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“Mosquitoes thrive in hot weather, increasing the risk of bites and mosquito-borne diseases.”

From Los Angeles Times

Earlier this year, the NCA warned of an increasing threat from cyber criminal gangs based in the UK and other English-speaking countries, such as Scattered Spider.

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Cdr Dominic Murphy, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said the Met had seen an increasing number of people in the UK being recruited by foreign intelligence services.

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Australia, like much of the world, has faced an increasing number of climate-related weather extremes in recent years including severe drought, historic bushfires and successive years of record-breaking floods.

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