Synonyms for increasing
in·creas·ing

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1. increasingadjective

   becoming greater or larger

   "increasing prices"

   Antonyms:
   diminuendo, rallentando, diminishing, depreciatory, ritenuto, calando, dwindling, tapering off, detractive, tapering, rit., allargando, depreciative, falling, decrescendo, decreasing, depreciating, ritardando

2. increasingadjective

   music

   Antonyms:
   tapering, allargando, diminuendo, calando, ritardando, decreasing, detractive, rit., depreciative, decrescendo, ritenuto, depreciatory, dwindling, falling, depreciating, rallentando, tapering off, diminishing

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1. List of paraphrases for "increasing":

   growing, increase, increased, rising, ever-increasing, enhance, raising, increasingly, enhancing, ever-growing, expanding, mounting, greater, improving, strengthening, improve, widening, escalating, raise, enhanced, rise, increases, croissant, boosting, strengthen, heightened, crescent, expand, upward

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1. Angela Pratt:

   Air pollution is now a recognized carcinogen, so there's no question that the hazardous levels of air pollution we're seeing in many parts of China are contributing to the increasing rates in particular of lung cancer.

2. Scott Huffmon:

   The party of the president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections. High prices at the pump can exacerbate anger at the ‘incumbent’ party, to that end, the Biden administration went back on it promise regarding human rights and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the visit to Saudi Arabia in hopes of increasing OPEC production and bringing down gas prices. While that had the temporary desired effect on prices, recent threats of OPEC production cuts will cause another spike in gas prices that could come at the worst possible time in the midterm election cycle for Democrats.

3. Assistant Secretary-General Taye-Brook Zerihoun:

   The rise in the incidence and severity of cyber-attacks is of increasing concern.

4. David Bernick:

   As the full historical record is now becoming known, it is clear that Richard Sackler supported Purdue's action plan for responding to the increasing evidence of widespread OxyContin abuse and diversion, that plan not only included cooperating with and following the instructions of public health authorities, but it went further to voluntarily undertake extensive efforts to prevent abuse and diversion of prescription opioids.

5. John Palabrica:

   It puts the grinders in a sticky situation as they will have to buy larger quantities from smaller firms, thereby increasing their risk.