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increasingly

(ɪnkriːsɪŋli )

adverb [ADVERB adjective, ADVERB with verb] B2

You can use increasingly to indicate that a situation or quality is becoming greater in intensity or more common.

He was finding it increasingly difficult to make decisions.

There is an increasingly popular alternative.

The U.S. has increasingly relied on Japanese capital.

Increasingly, their goals have become more radical.

Synonyms: progressively, more and more, to an increasing extent, continuously more

Collocations:

increasingly influential

Digital technologies are increasingly influential on the playing field.

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Winks was increasingly influential, and it was his pass forward that set the scene for the equaliser.

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Comparison firms, which charge product providers commission, are increasingly influential.

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Can it make peace with the increasingly influential and politically frustrated big cities?

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Comparison firms are increasingly influential in the insurance industry.

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increasingly interested in

While carrying out his day job, he became increasingly interested in forensic detection.

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However, scientists are increasingly interested in another type of superspreader: people who pass on infections while remaining healthy themselves.

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Students, too, are increasingly interested in more focused programmes.

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The public - which includes over three million graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics - are increasingly interested in science and engineering.

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Today, as many other natural habitats have become degraded, researchers worldwide are increasingly interested in the role of these sites in biodiversity conservation.

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increasingly irrelevant

There is no use griping that the detective label has become increasingly irrelevant.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

Interesting in a society where the royal family is seen as increasingly irrelevant.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

And in any case it is increasingly irrelevant.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

And not just any old battle line either, but that deliciously divisive (and increasingly irrelevant) line of class distinction.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

increasingly likely

Surveys reveal that young people are increasingly likely to reject ' greed is good' workaholism.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

But perhaps long hours in traffic are increasingly likely, given the drubbing that congestion charging took in recent elections.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

If the brain becomes damaged by infection or other disease, involuntary movements become increasingly likely.

Knowles, Jane Know Your Own Mind (1991)

It looks increasingly likely, therefore, that devolution will be suspended.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

By the 1530s, the wealthy were more inclined to privacy than hospitality and were increasingly likely to dine in upstairs privy chambers.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

increasingly nervous

They were getting increasingly nervous about the positions.

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Spurs looked increasingly nervous and the visitors should have gone ahead.

The Sun

We started to sit back and looked increasingly nervous after controlling the first half.

The Sun

Just as in 2009, banks are increasingly nervous about doing business with one another.

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Government forces are still present, although they seem increasingly nervous of coming on to the streets except in huge shows of force.

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increasingly obvious

It becomes increasingly obvious that there's noise and then there's science.

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It became increasingly obvious how much we had relied on the pressure valve of my work trips.

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Our unmet expectations will become increasingly obvious as we grow closer to others.

Christianity Today

As winter turned to spring, it became increasingly obvious that the best way to achieve growth was through combinations.

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As it became increasingly obvious that she was finding it difficult to cope with fame, fears about her health spread.

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increasingly popular

Reptiles such as the bearded dragon are becoming increasingly popular, as they are gentle, like to cuddle their human owners and don't need walks.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

Three-bedders are increasingly popular with first-time buyers who are being given a leg up the property ladder by the bank of mum and dad.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Buying a 'shovel-ready' site has become an increasingly popular way to build.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

The solution is to custom-build, which is becoming increasingly popular.

Times, Sunday Times (2018)

Switzerland was the primary choice, attracting almost fifty per cent of the business, although Cyprus was becoming increasingly popular.

Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2001)

increasingly powerful

I'm referring to the increasingly powerful forces of commercialisation.

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Select committees have become increasingly powerful, questioning senior officials and executives and making interventions in debates by issuing reports.

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The grey pound has also become increasingly powerful in overseas tourism, restaurants and even in the new-car market.

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Style bloggers have an increasingly powerful role to play in fashion as people rush to imitate them and designers try to woo them.

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It can, however, help to change the composition of this increasingly powerful body whose powers have grown topsy-turvy without anyone being consulted.

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increasingly prevalent

Late declarations have become increasingly prevalent in recent years.

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Sports psychologists are increasingly prevalent throughout professional sport and football clubs are no exception.

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So it makes you wonder why banks are consistently failing to spot and put a stop to an increasingly prevalent and pernicious financial crime.

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Property-related scams have become increasingly prevalent as fraudsters target the large sums of money that are exchanged in buying and selling homes.

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Nationwide's index also showed that cash-rich buyers were becoming increasingly prevalent, with the share of cash purchases reaching a record of 38 per cent in the first quarter.

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increasingly prominent

Rewarded with a goal and became increasingly prominent.

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It was a spectacular production fit for a rapidly growing and increasingly prominent city.

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He predicts that scientists, and chemists in particular, will take an increasingly prominent role in the industries of the future.

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The pandemic led to soaring demand for clean clothes in another, increasingly prominent part of the economy.

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Her reputation abroad shone as brightly as her local one as she became increasingly prominent as an international doctor.

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increasingly rare

The awe-inspiring sight has, however, become increasingly rare in recent decades as long-line fishing has put species under threat of extinction.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Hysterectomies are becoming increasingly rare as new techniques are developed to treat a range of womb conditions.

Times, Sunday Times (2018)

Such tortoises are increasingly rare because they are frequently poached, and they are critically endangered in their native Madagascar.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

But the film has an elegance, restraint and sense of space that is increasingly rare to find in documentary.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Caning by the head or housemasters was increasingly rare.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

increasingly reluctant to

Valuers are increasingly reluctant to put high values on properties for fears of repercussions from lenders should the valuation later prove too high.

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As the mortgage crisis has deepened, lenders have become increasingly reluctant to offer their best loans through intermediaries, insisting that customers approach them direct.

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I am becoming increasingly reluctant to recommend internet banking on devices that access a network wirelessly.

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Savers may benefit, though, as banks become increasingly reluctant to lend to each other and desperately look for alternative sources of funding.

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He reports that witnesses are increasingly reluctant to come forward because they do not trust the police.

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increasingly remote

We're getting increasingly remote now - your appearance in the village cafe will startle staff unused to customers.

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The game remained tight, the back rows were locked in a titanic battle and the possibility of a try being scored looked increasingly remote.

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He found the players to be increasingly remote, as what he knew as a game turned into a business.

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Economic disasters make the chances of receiving a decent pension increasingly remote but, even so, most people are keen to extend their lifespan.

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Sport's participants are increasingly remote from us: wealthy beyond comprehension, media-trained to perfection so that they can say nothing for hours at a time beneath the sponsor's baseball cap.

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increasingly scarce

This is a terrible misallocation of increasingly scarce resources.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

In addition, murre eggs were becoming increasingly scarce.

2019 , 'When California Went to War Over Eggs', Smithsonian

Recycling would reduce the waste at our increasingly scarce landfill sites.

Lashford, Stephanie The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food (1988)

The result is a drain on increasingly scarce council resources.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

increasingly sceptical

Those looking to leave their money with a fund manager to invest are increasingly sceptical because of a period of poor performance.

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Only a broad cross-party consensus, opposition deputies said, would be able to recover the trust of the eurozone and the increasingly sceptical markets.

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Perhaps as a result, law firms are becoming increasingly sceptical about the role of directories.

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But markets have grown increasingly sceptical about whether austerity measures are compatible with the country's huge unemployment problem.

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However, head teachers are increasingly sceptical that their pupils will be sitting their exams this summer as usual.

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increasingly secular

The report comes at a key point in the debate about the role of faith schools in an increasingly secular and multicultural society.

Times, Sunday Times

I find that the unchurched people today, whom we're called to reach, are increasingly secular.

Christianity Today

Even in our increasingly secular society, people want to pray.

Christianity Today

Like it or not, they have come to appropriate and disseminate some of the only spiritual values left in an increasingly secular world.

Times, Sunday Times

This interpretation explains why, in our increasingly secular and pluralistic culture, crosses and mangers are more and more omitted from store windows.

Christianity Today

increasingly sophisticated

Though we've become increasingly sophisticated with the way we interact online, we weren't always that way — and earlier posts could prove embarrassing.

The Sun

Police and car makers say innocent drivers have nothing to fear from the data — or from the increasingly sophisticated ways that authorities can extract it.

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Perhaps if you could smell the increasingly sophisticated sustenance, you might reconsider.

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Fraudsters have grown increasingly sophisticated, trawling publicly available data to construct a picture of their targets.

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They should also give people better protection against increasingly sophisticated scammers.

The Sun

increasingly suspicious of

Scholars are becoming increasingly suspicious of artifacts not found in genuine archaeological digs.

Christianity Today

The two communities have become increasingly suspicious of each other, and each have their own political parties, television stations and newspapers.

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I reach retirement age in a few months and have become increasingly suspicious of the motives of some independent financial advisers.

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The threat of discovery, as he becomes increasingly suspicious of his daughter's abstracted moods, gives the successful resolution of each mystery an extra twist of suspense.

The Times Literary Supplement

I become increasingly suspicious of my family and my colleagues at work, and increasingly dissatisfied by everyone's performance of even simple tasks.

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increasingly uncertain

Agreements and partnerships like this are vital to the nation's energy security in an increasingly uncertain world.

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While some matters are straightforward, others involve your increasingly uncertain goals.

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That's a quality we may need in an increasingly uncertain world.

The Sun

A mile and more beneath us lies deposits of gas-bearing shale rock with the potential to guarantee energy supplies in an increasingly uncertain and competitive world.

The Sun

Yet the government's approach to policy appears increasingly uncertain.

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increasingly uncomfortable

However, as the dangers to health caused by smoking emerged, he felt increasingly uncomfortable working for the company.

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Inevitably, tensions boil over as plans to pave paradise turn increasingly uncomfortable and dangerous.

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She said that people were 'very patient', but that the situation became increasingly uncomfortable as promised refreshments did not materialise.

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Compelling, yes, but, as the plot comes to the boil, increasingly uncomfortable.

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But beneath the absurdity there's an increasingly uncomfortable edge.

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increasingly uneasy

Little wonder that he looks increasingly uneasy next to the manager on the touchline.

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Promising as certain alliances - personal or professional - may be, you're increasingly uneasy about a distinct lack of solid plans.

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While your instincts say these will be as worthwhile in practical terms as they'll be interesting, you're increasingly uneasy.

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Or else his head might lie increasingly uneasy on his shoulders.

The Sun

As the story began to spread, promoters became increasingly uneasy.

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increasingly unhappy

Institutional investors are increasingly unhappy about banker pay but feel they have already shouldered more than enough pain themselves.

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I became increasingly unhappy and we split up.

The Sun

She became increasingly unhappy and turned to food to fill the void, piling on more than 2st.

The Sun

But unfortunately he was still single and was growing increasingly unhappy at living his life that way.

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However, office workers are increasingly unhappy about the removal of rights to their own desk, saying it decreases their productivity.

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increasingly unlikely

Snow is looking increasingly unlikely as mild air sweeps in from the south.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

But after a year of trying it seems increasingly unlikely anyone will now take her on as a solo chart star.

The Sun (2010)

It also feels like a wish that is increasingly unlikely to come true.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

A continuation of that access seems increasingly unlikely.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

increasingly unpopular

In later years, however, he has been increasingly unpopular.

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But the acrimony between him and an increasingly unpopular prime minister kept boiling to the surface.

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Among restless suppliers of luxury goods to the increasingly unpopular elite, the family had risen to prosperity.

Christianity Today

Yet all this austerity in the name of joining the euro has, unsurprisingly, made membership increasingly unpopular.

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His aloofness, though increasingly unpopular, ought to help him to face down vested interests and drive through reform.

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increasingly unstable

No longer subject to the vagaries of an increasingly unstable weather system, they will be sanctuaries from the world and places to gather.

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But in an increasingly unstable world, it has also become clear in recent years that this openness brings risks.

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Thirty years on, while her blend of militancy and motherliness remains intact, the bodies around her are increasingly unstable.

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New ideas that threaten county cricket's increasingly unstable world are by no means as certain to be thrown out as they once were.

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These duds are growing increasingly unstable as their components disintegrate, and experts warn that, within a decade, they could detonate by themselves.

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increasingly urgent

Still, you've hoped these could wait until you tackled certain increasingly urgent obligations.

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As the 100 prints unfold in their increasingly urgent manner, their autobiographical presence grows ever fiercer.

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However, things are increasingly urgent, so require frank discussion and serious problemsolving.

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As the population ages, the safety of older people staying in their homes will become an increasingly urgent political and social issue.

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They are also about the increasingly urgent scientific attempt to explain art, the supreme human achievement.

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increasingly vocal

This group and a few others became increasingly vocal in their opposition to my leadership.

Christianity Today

It may play well with his supporters but it will do nothing to appease his increasingly vocal detractors.

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His increasingly vocal comments about corporate behaviour carry huge sway among companies and investors.

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Over the past five years, emerging economies have become increasingly vocal about its shortcomings.

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Government scientists have become increasingly vocal in their insistence that weighing up competing priorities can only be a political decision.

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increasingly vulnerable to

In the age of global warming such megacities are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophes.

The Times Literary Supplement (2011)

As libraries continue to de-accession printed books, however, ink on paper feels increasingly vulnerable.

The Times Literary Supplement (2013)

Something has happened that makes you increasingly vulnerable to panic attacks.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

increasingly wary of

Yet most companies and businesses are increasingly wary of funding the arts, while private individuals and their charities have become more forthcoming.

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Policymakers worldwide are increasingly wary of the vast power the social network wields over political discourse and the digital economy.

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Analysts say savers have become increasingly wary of investing in stock-markets.

The Sun

Many are becoming increasingly wary of the militias' mounting lawlessness.

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Agents say that knocking through has gained popularity as homeowners who want more space become increasingly wary of moving.

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increasingly willing to

Buyers, meanwhile, are becoming increasingly willing to meet in the middle.

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In the meantime, the public have become increasingly willing to spend money online.

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It demonstrates how governments are increasingly willing to intervene on behalf of companies that are seen as representative of the national interest.

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Moreover, employers are increasingly willing to pay recruits while they train.

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The deal showed that bidders are increasingly willing to come out of the woodwork to pre-empt public listings with knockout bids.

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increasingly worried

However, he added that companies had become increasingly worried about the coming year, suggesting that the upturn may prove short-lived.

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Private schools are increasingly worried that such practices are keeping some of their better qualified pupils out of the top universities.

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But she quit after becoming increasingly worried about the effect of the website on our daily lives.

The Sun

However, the super-wealthy have become increasingly worried about the security of their homes.

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Some economists are increasingly worried that the world recovery could stall as political logjams in leading capitals undermine investor confidence across the world.

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rely increasingly on

Fourth, she has come to rely increasingly on a small group of advisers who are unable to deal with the challenges of the financial crisis.

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The intensity of the fighting prompted allied commanders to rely increasingly on artillery and air power.

Times, Sunday Times

As we have come to rely increasingly on the agencies of state security, so much depends on the personal qualities of those who work within them.

The Times Literary Supplement

In particular, the agency has pointed out how the banks have come to rely increasingly on wholesale funds, rather than retail deposits, to finance their lending books.

Times, Sunday Times

In these straitened times, cultural organisations and museums, especially those that cannot levy entrance charges, rely increasingly on the patronage and fundraising activities of their friends.

Times, Sunday Times

Translations:

Chinese: 日益

Japanese: ますます