increasingly

American  

[in-kree-sing-lee] / ɪnˈkri sɪŋ li /

adverb

1. to an ever greater degree; more and more: Marketers are increasingly using video to create meaningful emotional connections with their consumers.

   He became increasingly nervous and overwrought and began to suffer bouts of depression.

   Marketers are increasingly using video to create meaningful emotional connections with their consumers.

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Etymology

Origin of increasingly

increasing ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Discomfort with one’s body was increasingly reframed by clinicians and activists as a psychological flaw, and the desire for physical change treated with suspicion, as if it betrayed a lack of self-acceptance.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Musk has done a good job, increasingly in the past year, of switching the conversation from Tesla sales to AI and robotics,” Brauer said.

From Los Angeles Times

Other global firms are increasingly incorporating popular ingredients associated with Korean brands such as centella asiatica and rice water into their own lines.

From BBC

Harris had private treatment after increasingly struggling to walk around her constituency, which came to a head while walking around a lake in Swansea to celebrate International Menopause Day.

From BBC

But the U.K.’s stock market success is much broader than silver—and the rally likely has legs that will outlast what increasingly looks like a dangerous charge skyward in the volatile white metal.

From Barron's

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