Thesaurus results for INCREASES

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verb

present tense third-person singular of increase

as in expands

to make greater in size, amount, or number we have to increase the number of season-ticket holders if the local sports franchise is to survive

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as in rises

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number the number of Internet users increased exponentially during the 1990s

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increases

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noun

plural of increase

as in boosts

something added (as by growth) shortly after he turned 12, he had a sudden height increase

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as in accumulations

the act or process of becoming greater in number the increase in the number of students enrolled at the school was very gradual

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Recent Examples of increases

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According to this law, heat always flows from a hotter to a cooler object, which in turn increases that cooler object’s entropy. —

Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2026 The project increases Georgia’s already strong presence in the growing defense industry. —

Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 21 Apr. 2026 By Wednesday and Thursday, the chance of rain drops, then a chance of strong to severe storms increases again on Friday and lingers into the weekend with a dryline set up out west. —

Michael Autovino, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 The focus here is on city roadways, but California drivers often move between urban areas and surrounding rural corridors, where crash severity increases due to higher speeds. —

Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026 Lying on the ground increases the effect by maximizing skin-to-earth surface area. —

Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026 Accessible, affordable childcare alleviates poverty, prevents homelessness, improves employer productivity and retention, increases the tax base, supports small businesses and keeps young families in our communities. —

Susan Ellenberg, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026 The letter alleges that the Missouri State Tax Commission’s recent orders regarding Jackson County assessments do not discuss credits on 2023 and 2024 tax payments, or the 15% cap on commercial property value increases that LeVota has also implemented. —

Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026 According to the Terner Center at UC Berkeley, each additional public funding source an affordable developer uses, on average, delays a project four months and increases total cost by $20,460 per unit — more than $2 million for a 100-unit community. —

Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026

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The club finished second in attendance last year, behind the Los Angeles Dodgers, despite steep increases in ticket prices in recent years. —

Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 21 Apr. 2026 While tariff pain was partially contained to specific categories of food, rising fuel and fertilizer prices promise across-the-board increases, Volpe said. —

Tristan Bove, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026 The rapid acceleration of price increases could complicate interest rate policy at the Fed, which may be reluctant to lower borrowing costs as inflation climbs. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026 Those increases would become part of Xcel’s rate base, unlike the short-term expenditures. —

Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026 That's because many companies passed through their cost increases, raising the overall level of consumer prices. —

Tobias Burns, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026 The previous government fell amid protests against a new budget proposing tax increases and higher social security contributions. —

Reuters, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026 Similar price increases have reverberated around the globe. —

Tibor Besedeš, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026 While recent gas price increases can mostly be tied to conflict in the Iran war, the annual switch to summer-blend gasoline and refinery shutdowns are also pushing prices higher in California. —

Sacbee.com, 20 Apr. 2026

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Choose the path that expands your world.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
This amazing project significantly expands our ability to accomplish our mission, to stimulate curiosity and inspire science learning in everyone, on a scale and with an impact unlike anything in our history.

— Staff report, Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026