incrementalist

[in-kruh-men-tuhl-ist]

noun

plural

incrementalists 

1. a person who believes in or advocates for incrementalism.

adjective

1. relating to incrementalism.

Other Word Forms

• incrementalistic adjective

Example Sentences

Others are taking a more incrementalist approach, writing personhood into measures on child support, or wrongful death.

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It’s not really that Roberts has changed, it’s that he’s always been this person, and the notion that he has drifted from incrementalist centrist consensus-builder to something else—that’s just overblown in the press?

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Hovstad fancies himself a revolutionary; Aslaksen is a cautious incrementalist.

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Her son Scott saw her as an "incrementalist" who "wasn't trying to knock down tradition too much".

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She described herself as “an incrementalist” but acknowledged, “Certain people in the movement don’t like incrementalism” and think “we have to have it all.”

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