How to Use incremental in a Sentence

incremental

adjective
  • More than incremental steps will be needed to get back in the race.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But while the growth in the men’s field is incremental, the growth in the women’s field has been far more dramatic.
    Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • But the coaches who spoke there are tired of progress that is incremental at best.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The inner life and the outer life are parts of the same process of incremental improvement.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The loans are tied to a tax incremental financing district at the Sears site.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Progress has been slow, with the record set in the 1980s and only incremental improvements made since.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The agent who spoke to me described the interview as incremental truth telling.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But in the past, even the direst and rattling hacks have led only to incremental progress on the most basic best practices.
    WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The revamp for comfort is matched by an incremental increase in room between the knees and the seat ahead.
    Silas Valentino, Chron, 6 July 2022
  • The next decades were a grind of incremental medical progress: A child born with CF in the ’50s could expect to live until age 5.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Even so, both sides hope that incremental deals along the way will ease a path to an overall settlement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Yes, the journey can look overwhelming, but it’s the incremental actions that yield a sea of change.
    Lauren Leader, ELLE, 30 June 2022
  • Also, this has been a slow, incremental process to get a plan and funding for it in place to clean up the border pollution.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • With today’s report, there’s more emphasis on the incremental steps the world needs to take right away.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But one reason the deal is worth passing: The provisions on work and welfare are incremental progress the GOP can build on.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 May 2023
  • They’re now laid down on coin-size chips by the billion, the products of decades of incremental improvements.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • The brief thrill of incremental problem-solving kept them hooked.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Those funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Next month will see the start of an incremental release of the first Fear of God Athletics season offer.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
  • These changes still seem fairly incremental, something that's been true of pretty much all phones in the past couple of years.
    Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But in large part because of the incremental gains in income and job gains, the higher costs have not stopped people from spending.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • India has yet to be able to replicate that formula or to come up with one of its own that can achieve more than incremental gains.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The war on Ukraine has now dragged on for more than four months, and Russia is using its firepower to make incremental gains.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 30 June 2022
  • The city's cash would come from a tax incremental financing district that covers part of the Menomonee Valley's east end.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But that incremental success has not come without bumps in the road, adds Meyer.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
  • While there is a general sense there has been incremental progress at the upper levels of the sport over the last five years, Chiles believes more work needs to be done.
    Will Graves, Chron, 20 Aug. 2022
  • So expect incremental progress on this problem for years to come.
    Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
  • Some offer ratchet action to cut large stems in incremental bites.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2024
  • By investing in incremental labor, the coffee giant could improve its service and speed in stores.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2024

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