How to Use incremental in a Sentence
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More than incremental steps will be needed to get back in the race.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
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But while the growth in the men’s field is incremental, the growth in the women’s field has been far more dramatic.
—Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
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The inner life and the outer life are parts of the same process of incremental improvement.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
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The loans are tied to a tax incremental financing district at the Sears site.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2023
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Progress has been slow, with the record set in the 1980s and only incremental improvements made since.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
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The agent who spoke to me described the interview as incremental truth telling.
—Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
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The funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
—Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
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The next decades were a grind of incremental medical progress: A child born with CF in the ’50s could expect to live until age 5.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
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Even so, both sides hope that incremental deals along the way will ease a path to an overall settlement.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
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Also, this has been a slow, incremental process to get a plan and funding for it in place to clean up the border pollution.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
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With today’s report, there’s more emphasis on the incremental steps the world needs to take right away.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
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But one reason the deal is worth passing: The provisions on work and welfare are incremental progress the GOP can build on.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 May 2023
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They’re now laid down on coin-size chips by the billion, the products of decades of incremental improvements.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2024
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The brief thrill of incremental problem-solving kept them hooked.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
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Those funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
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Next month will see the start of an incremental release of the first Fear of God Athletics season offer.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2023
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These changes still seem fairly incremental, something that's been true of pretty much all phones in the past couple of years.
—Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2023
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But in large part because of the incremental gains in income and job gains, the higher costs have not stopped people from spending.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
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India has yet to be able to replicate that formula or to come up with one of its own that can achieve more than incremental gains.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
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The city's cash would come from a tax incremental financing district that covers part of the Menomonee Valley's east end.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
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These deals are available for every team to explore to bring in that same incremental revenue.
—Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
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The other 60% is incremental, because adults are finding now no longer need an excuse to drink one.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 May 2024
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According to her trainer, Seyler, and her handler, Keeper, Grace is to work a 12-hour shift alongside the sergeant, with incremental breaks for rest and play.
—Nate Flauto, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2023
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The putting green is split into four quadrants, with incremental slopes ranging from 0-1% to 3-4% inclines.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
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After years of incremental growth, the winery is entering a new stage.
—Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2023
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The landslide today In recent years, the landslide’s harm has been more incremental than the initial destruction in 1956.
—Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
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Offensive gains across the game have been incremental, not eye-popping.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
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This version was such an improvement that Yamaha has only had to make incremental changes in recent years to keep it at the head of the superbike pack.
—Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
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The police equipment upgrades are part of an incremental process to update the department’s equipment during the next few years, Becker added.
—Lizzy Alspach, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2024
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That’s because retailers remain most at risk if there’s a rise in incremental tariffs—both in costs and possible supply chain disruptions—after the November elections.
—Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 23 July 2024
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