creep

Example Sentences

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The definitional creep of what we now consider middle age—pushed back, perhaps, because of the increasing delay in starting families—means that it often overlaps with the territory of old age.

From The Wall Street Journal

Companies are wrestling with drilling hazards that make it more costly to operate and complaining that the marinade is creeping into their oil-and-gas reservoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal

The number of new jobs created this year has taken a nosedive, and the unemployment rate has crept up to a four-year high of 4.6%.

From MarketWatch

The number of new jobs created this year has taken a nosedive, and the unemployment rate has crept up to a four-year high of 4.6%.

From MarketWatch

"It's a large, slowly moving mass -- on the order of about 500 million cubic meters -- that has been creeping for decades."

From Science Daily