ratchet
Example Sentences
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Tech companies’ voracious appetite for data centers is ratcheting up demand further, with the need for millions more miles of cables.
Members of United Teachers Los Angeles have voted overwhelmingly to authorize their leadership to call a strike, ratcheting up pressure as negotiations stall and L.A.
From Los Angeles Times
The tension ratcheted up and the top seed quickly forged three set points at 5-4 on the Kazakh's serve, ruthlessly levelling the match at the first chance to force a deciding set.
From Barron's
Ministers and the officials working on the minutiae of the negotiations are hopeful there can be a step-by-step ratcheting up of dividends associated with a closer, warmer relationship.
From BBC
That is set to change this year, and fees are supposed to ratchet up over time.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
