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as in gradual
proceeding or changing by steps or degrees
the incremental evolution of the collection from a specialized gallery into a comprehensive art museum
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as in cumulative
produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things
the incremental total for my collection of baseball cards
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Recent Examples of incremental
Orbital decay refers to an incremental decrease in altitude, gradually closing a craft's distance to Earth, according to NASA.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 May 2025
Indeed, as The Wall Street Journal argued, this would cede the high ground and play into the hands of progressive activists, who will never be satisfied with incremental hikes in tax rates for wealthy Americans.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 5 May 2025
In the ramp-up to Epic’s opening there were about $100 million in incremental costs, as anticipated, chief financial officer Jason Armstrong said.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2025
Less than one month later, Beijing is taking an incremental step to challenge the status quo.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 May 2025
Indeed, as The Wall Street Journal argued, this would cede the high ground and play into the hands of progressive activists, who will never be satisfied with incremental hikes in tax rates for wealthy Americans.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 5 May 2025
In the ramp-up to Epic’s opening there were about $100 million in incremental costs, as anticipated, chief financial officer Jason Armstrong said.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2025
Less than one month later, Beijing is taking an incremental step to challenge the status quo.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incremental
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This year, the number of high school graduates will peak at around 3.9 million and then begin a gradual descent that will result in about 13% fewer by 2041.—
Paul Weinstein Jr,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Instead, the change was a gradual softening, a growing sense that my shoulders had dropped a bit and my tongue wasn’t glued so tightly to the roof of my mouth.—
Anya Meyerowitz,
Glamour,
9 May 2025
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By the third month of tracking, our cumulative time savings grew from 29 hours to about 107 hours across our 10-person team, roughly a month's worth of gains.—
Bozhanka Vitanova,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Oblivion returns to a world where the two-year-old Elden Ring is already halfway to Skyrim’s 60 million in cumulative sales.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
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“Incremental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incremental. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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