Used in a Sentence

increasingly

How to use increasingly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for increasingly.

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As time went on, it became increasingly clear that they would not be able to accomplish the goal they originally set out to do. They had failed.

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Quick take

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of increasingly gathered in one view.

adverb

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for increasingly.

adverb

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

Example sentences

1

As time went on, it became increasingly clear that they would not be able to accomplish the goal they originally set out to do. They had failed.

2

A product where consumers increasingly expect prices to be tiny or zero. 3.

3

While I don't bemoan this man his steak, this kind of things increasingly bothers me. On the internet I sometimes get the impression that "everyone" has cute things like this happen to them.

4

Rather than accepting a level of risk as the price for being free and handling disasters when they do occur, we seem to be increasingly trying to avoid danger at all costs. And the cost seems to be freedom.

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This is truly long-term work, which seems rare in an increasingly short-term world. And Rust isn't just another C clone with OOP or CSP bolted on: it's principled, relatively elegant and takes full advantage of the last few decades of PL research.

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And increasingly tooling is placing such things closer and closer to "the act of programming", and yet Victor himself still seems to be quite blind to the idea of these things as "programming". Though I don't think that will be the view among programmers a few decades down the road.

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But we'll never know, and now he's spending his last days growing increasingly embittered because he feels that he's lost control of something he didn't even create in the first place.

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They spend months doing expensive research, while your product engineers fly from city to city trying to pacify the increasingly irate customers. Eventually the scientists find that the paint can be fixed by mixing in some kind of protein or other.

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Notionally, this is a forum for creators, but it seems increasingly pre-occupied with utterly unproductive posturing over whose tastes are 'better'. It's a troubling trend.

10

Our immigration policies are getting worse over time, while European countries and Canada are becoming increasingly attractive. The gap is narrowing.

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This has been fixed recently, they have a new head of security [1] and have increasingly shown that they are getting faster at closing bugs and bringing out updates to fix issues. Look at the Pwn2Own contest iPhone bug, Apple was notified and an update was made available that fixed only that one flaw.

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The beast can't help itself, it's panicking, running around the world doing increasingly stupid and desperate things to get Snowden back. The beast has lost its anonymity, it's showing itself up by taking actions obviously not in the best interests of the USA but rather out of pure panic.

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Further it will increasingly leave behind every other distro, because while others may trade off market share amongst the technical users, where programmers slosh from one to the next, Unity will be gaining non-technical users who won't go anywhere else in the Linux space. Ever.

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It is a government that is increasingly relying on citizen ignorance to secretly make and implement policy, and on savage reprisals to terrorize those who might expose the process.

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And increasingly, I'm seeing a lot of examples of very successful founders who definitely work hard, but keep an eye on themselves, their health, their relationships, etc. and have lines they're just not willing to cross.

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Examples look increasingly like impossible-to-memorize line noise to me, while the --include, --exclude etc. options in `replace` are comprehensible and seem to follow standard command line argument practices.

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But assaults on privacy are but a symptom of a deeper malady as modern society increasingly believes that it can hand over massive forms of unchecked government to its politicians in the naive belief that such power can be used wisely if only we have right-thinking leaders at the helm. The answer, as de Tocqueville noted years ago, is not to place faith in leaders but rather to take personal responsibility in our lives and to curtail the powers of those who govern.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use increasingly in a sentence?

As time went on, it became increasingly clear that they would not be able to accomplish the goal they originally set out to do. They had failed.

What does increasingly mean?

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

What part of speech is increasingly?

increasingly is commonly used as adverb.