Example Sentences

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She has increased ordering of smaller sizes to accommodate her customers’ slimmer frames.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Urgency to tamp down the invasive mosquito population in California has increased since 2023, when the state logged its first locally acquired dengue cases — meaning people were infected in their communities, not while traveling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Such informal mining has increased in Kono following the closure last year of the country's biggest diamond mine Koidu Holdings.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Though the jobless rate has increased for younger workers in “remotable sectors,” it has declined slightly for older workers in those sectors, researchers noted.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Life expectancy has increased overall; but upper-middle-class Americans live longer and in better health than middle-class Americans, who live longer and in better health than those at the bottom.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times