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 -
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 -
But the coaches who spoke there are tired of progress that is incremental at best.
— Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022 -
The inner life and the outer life are parts of the same process of incremental improvement.
— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 -
The loans are tied to a tax incremental financing district at the Sears site.
— Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2023 -
Progress has been slow, with the record set in the 1980s and only incremental improvements made since.
— Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024 -
The agent who spoke to me described the interview as incremental truth telling.
— Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023 -
The funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
— Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023 -
But in the past, even the direst and rattling hacks have led only to incremental progress on the most basic best practices.
— WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022 -
The revamp for comfort is matched by an incremental increase in room between the knees and the seat ahead.
— Silas Valentino, Chron, 6 July 2022 -
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 -
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 -
Yes, the journey can look overwhelming, but it’s the incremental actions that yield a sea of change.
— Lauren Leader, ELLE, 30 June 2022 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
They’re now laid down on coin-size chips by the billion, the products of decades of incremental improvements.
— Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2024 -
The brief thrill of incremental problem-solving kept them hooked.
— Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Those funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
— Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The war on Ukraine has now dragged on for more than four months, and Russia is using its firepower to make incremental gains.
— Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 30 June 2022 -
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 -
But that incremental success has not come without bumps in the road, adds Meyer.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024 -
While there is a general sense there has been incremental progress at the upper levels of the sport over the last five years, Chiles believes more work needs to be done.
— Will Graves, Chron, 20 Aug. 2022 -
So expect incremental progress on this problem for years to come.
— Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022 -
The resulting tax rates are relatively high, but the district has been measured and incremental in its past requests to voters.
— Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024 -
Or are your goals more modest—to make incremental improvements to key processes?
— Brian Walker, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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