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increment
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  • Another incremental test, we think.   (source)
    incremental = relating to progressive steps
  • Of course, I gradually shared my past with them in increments as they grew older.   (source)
    increments = gradual increases
  • While many of the changes in Clarkston were incremental and hard to notice at first, other events occurred that called attention to the changes and caused the locals to wonder what exactly was happening to their town.   (source)
    incremental = relating to a small increase at a time
  • He began with away, demonstrating in small increments: at first it was enough to look somewhere else without moving.†   (source)
  • Crossing the massive nave on a diagonal, Langdon and Sophie remained silent as the elaborate sepulchre revealed itself in tantalizing increments...a black-marble sarcophagus...a reclining statue of Newton...two winged boys...a huge pyramid...and...an enormous orb.†   (source)
  • There had been some incremental improvements in the system since then, maybe, but Demoxie would explode it all.†   (source)
  • But the incremental gain in happiness that came from getting a raise from $50K to $100K was much less.†   (source)
  • We turn onto a different highway, and the speed limit goes back up incrementally, but Radar is driving slowly anyway.†   (source)
  • He lived way up on Adam Clayton Powell, a few blocks from the last stop on the 3 line, but there was a bar called Brother J's where we sometimes met on 110th: a workingman's dive with Bill Withers on the jukebox and a sticky floor, career alcoholics slumped over their third bourbon at two p.m. But Jerome did not sell pharmaceuticals in increments of less than a thousand dollars and though I knew he would be perfectly glad to let me have a few bags of smack it seemed like a lot less trouble if I just went ahead and took a cab straight down to the Brooklyn Bridge.†   (source)
  • At this point, you don't even comprehend that freedom is an incremental process.†   (source)
  • I know I have changed too, the stubbornly growing paunch, the just-as-determined retreat of the hairline, but the decline of one's own body is incremental, as nearly imperceptible as it is insidious.†   (source)
  • Instead I walked into the echoing main hall, where Amaat stood, a jeweled Emanation in each hand, already knee-deep in flowers, a hill of red and orange and yellow as high as my head, growing incrementally as worshippers tossed more blooms on the pile.†   (source)
  • I could feel the control of my body come back to me in increments, and those increments were my first markers of the time passing.†   (source)
  • All of the possible reasons for why New York's crime rate dropped are changes that happened at the margin; they were incremental changes.†   (source)
  • But most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists.†   (source)
  • In this agonizing fashion I climbed toward above, progressing in increments calibrated in inches.†   (source)
  • Information rushed toward me, rushed slowly, incrementally.†   (source)
  • Every increment required meth or more meth.†   (source)
  • For all our skepticism about laws, this one, like the landmark 2000 legislation that required annual reports about human trafficking abroad, would have a real if incremental impact around the world.†   (source)
  • I could feel the trampoline easing up and down, moved by our own breathing, bringing us in small increments up and back from the sky as the colors faded, slowly, and the stars began to show themselves.†   (source)
  • As he said it, the fading light reflected in his eyes, making them seem as if they were changing color incrementally.†   (source)
  • It was persistent, with incremental decreases year after year.†   (source)
  • We have evidence that you paid to Sharon DeBlass one hundred thousand dollars, in twenty-five thousand dollar increments in one year's period.†   (source)
  • And they lined the beach in evenly spaced increments that continued as far as he could see.†   (source)
  • By increments we were blinded, the mainland dimming and the sun fading to a pale white bloom, and we turned circles in the eddying tide until we'd lost all sense of direction.†   (source)
  • Change is gradual and incremental, and when one lives in the midst of one's family, one rarely notices differences in them.†   (source)
  • I arrange for the services to be billed in even increments, and if I make a mistake, even at the bottom of a page of calculations, I don't cross it out, I don't erase it, I throw the page away and start over.†   (source)
  • The glowing green numbers reminded him of those on the clock in Charles Delmann's bloodied bedroom: time flashing backward in ten-minute increments.†   (source)
  • Some students sit on the outer edges of the garden boxes that are placed incrementally throughout.†   (source)
  • 0— F at 21-degree increments.   (source)
    increments = gradual increases
  • Uber's surge pricing program detects situations where there is a shortage of drivers and increments charges to customers and payments to drivers depending upon the scale of the shortage.
    increments = increases
  • I increased my sneer, just the smallest increment.†   (source)
  • Mike, he typed, Attached are the courses for Iris, in 1-day increments.†   (source)
  • I inched forward incrementally, then craned my neck, trying to see who was causing the holdup.†   (source)
  • So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life.†   (source)
  • "If the goal of visionaries is to make a quantum leap forward, the goal of pragmatists is to make a percentage improvement — incremental, measurable, predictable progress," Moore writes.†   (source)
  • I unclasped my bag again and counted out the right amount—I had it all paper-clipped into five-thousand-dollar increments, so it took no time at all.†   (source)
  • Her touch had released some tiny increment of the poison bound up in him that would, days to come, ripen into sorrow.†   (source)
  • Every incremental intimacy with Matt felt as if she were falling off a cliff-that loss of breath, those butterflies in her stomach.†   (source)
  • In his practice sessions, he rode in sixteen-second increments, exactly double the time he'd need to ride in the arena.†   (source)
  • After another incremental budge, I watched as Eli put his hand on the back of the bike, nudging it forward just slightly.†   (source)
  • He was gaining only by increments.†   (source)
  • Instead, it was a slow process, little increments, like moving a half a millimeter a day so that you only really notice progress from a distance.†   (source)
  • Or do assisted riding first, with the intention of a slow, incremental build toward independent movement?†   (source)
  • Will you explain, Chief Simpson, the withdrawal of one hundred thousand dollars, in twenty-five thousand dollar increments, every three months during the past year?†   (source)
  • Then we worked up to her letting go for small increments, while still running behind, so I didn't topple over.†   (source)
  • David who was watching his mother as she stood above her husband serving him, saw her bosom swell up slowly as though responding to minute increments of pain, and then without response, exhale tautly her muted breath and look off blankly and resigned.†   (source)
  • know that he still had it) and told Grandfather—told him, mind; not excusing, asking for no pity; not explaining, asking for no exculpation: just told Grandfather how he had put his first wife aside like eleventh and twelfth century kings did: 'I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.'†   (source)
  • If A, is the penny sufficient, or may he claim consequential damages in the form of additional money to represent the possible profit which might have inured from the dog, and classifiable as earned increment, that is to say, usufruct?†   (source)
  • —he now desires to give back, with increment.†   (source)
  • The treasure, all that I once brought home from Argos, though, I offer willingly, and with increment.†   (source)
  • closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod and brace, armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: ditto, plain: servants' apartments with separate sanitary and hygienic necessaries for cook, general and betweenmaid (salary, rising by biennial unearned increments of 2 pounds, with comprehensive fidelity insurance, annual bonus (1 pound) and retiring allowance (based on the 65 system) after 30 years' service), pantry, buttery, larder, refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin (still and sparkling vintages) for distinguished guests, if entertained to dinner (evening dress), carbo†   (source)
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