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Officials said growing overcapacity, rising steel imports and tariffs from other countries were compounding challenges for the EU steel sector.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Kate Phillips-Barrasso, vice president of Mercy Corps, said that relentless fighting and insufficient humanitarian aid were compounding the crisis.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

Laura Doel, head of the National Association of Head Teachers Cymru, said that while recruitment and retention had been an issue in Wales for a while, below-inflation pay awards were compounding it.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2022

Virginia’s 511 system — which could have helped to convey the severity of conditions as problems were compounding Jan. 3 — stopped updating between 7:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., according to the report.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022

And this must not be left out in reckoning the grains and scruples that were compounding themselves into his inner consciousness.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons