escalation

noun

Definition of escalationnext
as in expansion

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  1. expansion
  2. inflation
  3. growth
  4. enlargement
  5. creep
  6. amplification
  7. distension
  8. rise
Noun
  • For 2025, industry experts predict expansions on already-booming product and treatment themes within the skin-care space.
    Victoria Moorhouse, Allure, 12 Dec. 2024
  • On Israel, the bill, among other things, includes an expansion of U.S. joint military exercises with Israel and a prohibition on the Pentagon citing casualty data from Hamas.
    Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of expansion
Noun
  • These record-breaking sales come on the heels of rising inflation.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Customers’ stockpiling helped new orders in November to rise at the quickest pace since February last year, with output price inflation at a 13-month high, according to the Caixin poll.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of inflation
Noun
  • The drop-off is a sharp turnaround from last year’s growth in freshman enrollment according to a new analysis, commissioned by the National College Attainment Network.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • As companies focus on sustainable growth, such a volatile environment inevitably tests their resilience.
    Ketil Gjerstad, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of growth
Noun
  • The French Foreign Ministry pushed for the government to embrace enlargement.
    Célia Belin, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The more common causes of this enlargement are coronary artery disease and high blood pressure (hypertension).4 Coronary artery disease occurs when the arteries that bring blood and oxygen to your heart become narrow or blocked.
    Alexandria Nyembwe, PhD, RN, Health, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of enlargement
Noun
  • The risks of dying creep up well before extreme heat and humidity levels.
    Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But when his uninvited relatives show up and start adding eyeballs to the mashed potatoes and maggots to the pumpkin pie, there are suddenly too many creeps in the kitchen.
    Jennifer Hubert Swan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of creep
Noun
  • The impact of this moment is heralded in a coup de cinéma that is a vast amplification of the story: a repetition of the breakfast-table encounter, seen, the second time around, from Turner’s point of view.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, the best winemakers in the area shoot for precision, for crystalline definition, and for an amplification of harmony rather than an exaggeration of individual elements.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of amplification
Noun
  • There, the balloon’s inflated with either liquid or gas to cause the mechanical distension needed for a continuous sensation of satiety.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Affected Organs Adult colic involves intestinal or urinary system pain in different types of colic: Gallbladder Biliary colic occurs as a result of distension (an increase in size) of your gallbladder.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
Definition of distension
Noun
  • Or the rise of foodie culture, accelerated by Bon Appétit’s once-beloved YouTube channel that encouraged my generation to strive for epicurean flare at home.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The incessant advertising, and the rise of social media influencers, has ultimately led to fast fashion's domination over the world of consumers.
    Presley Bo Tyler, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of rise
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