Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a growing manner; increasingly.
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- adverb To a
growing or increasing degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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With his partner, Landsman travels around the area, picking up clues, and trying to piece together the ever-growingly complex case.
“The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon (Harpercollins, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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However, this is only the latest instance in a series of deadly acts on the part of a nuclear state that is vastly and growingly more paranoid with effects that are no longer contained in the Middle East.
Sam Sedaei: The Israeli Raid and Questions About Israel's Continued Statehood 2010
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Everywhere we go, just like it's happened in New York as we've become growingly successful, everyone is going to introduce a feature like that.
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The crawl through the foliage was unnoticeable save for the orange streak bobbing behind her, steadying her growingly unstable walk in a horizontal balancing act.
dinner time 2010
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We live in a world growingly defined by the radical fringe.
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Everywhere we go, just like it's happened in New York as we've become growingly successful, everyone is going to introduce a feature like that.
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Today, there is a growingly entrenched cultural resentment against the US by both Iran and Iraq.
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There's also been some really good coverage day after day on the ever-growingly indispensable American Thinker website (www. americanthinker.com)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Now being overshadowed by the deaths of 6 Italian soldiers in the growingly unpopular war in Afghanistan, another deadly and sinister Tragedy is brewing.
International Eco-Mafia and an Ecological Catastrophe in the Mediterranean Sea 2009
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While the debate about talking to authoritarian and anti-American leaders around the world is interesting (though growingly less so now it's turning into a sounbytes war), it'd be interesting to hear the candidates 'opinion on talking to the rest of the international community.
Video Postcript: Hillary Pats Obama On The Head, Says, "Yes, Dear" 2009
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