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These include failing to carry out "timely and thorough observations" of patients, then falsifying records "in the safe knowledge that staff on duty would not report or escalate the deception".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

A leadership that feels cornered may escalate rather than accommodate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

I don’t want to escalate too quickly and create pressure, but I also don’t want to miss opportunities by hesitating too long.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Pantoja stood up from his seat after Van interrupted him, but the situation did not escalate into a physical confrontation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

It's time to think bigger, to escalate the pamphlet campaign, to enlarge his circle so that more Germans learn the truth.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The situation escalates as the mariachi music begins playing and the couple approach a display of white roses and candles laid out on the grass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Over the following fortnight, the unrest escalates dramatically.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Attempts at diplomacy have floundered as fighting escalates on several fronts across Africa's third-largest country.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

As debate escalates over the implications of open-weight artificial intelligence in both Washington and Silicon Valley, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made his position clear on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

The feeling escalates when the man comes down the road and walks up the porch steps.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

At a Dallas therapy practice, it divided in-laws and escalated into firings and lawsuits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The hours-long stand-off escalated on Monday night as demonstrators decried the sentencing of Kosovo's former president, Hashim Thaci, who was last month sentenced to war crimes committed during the 1990s war for independence against Serbia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests escalated in June 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

He added that he was "very worried" about the current situation as "I know how badly it escalated and what the repercussions were in many cases".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

On Saturday, March 6, the day before the march, tensions in Selma escalated when a group of seventy sympathetic whites from across the state held a rally of their own to support black voting rights.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

Port Lockroy faces escalating deterioration from age, climate change and environmental factors, said UKAHT.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Saudis’ escalating fight with the Iran-backed Houthi militants poses new challenges to the country’s security and plans to transform its oil-dependent economy, according to the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

The negotiations follow months of rising tensions between the 27-nation EU and the Asian powerhouse that risk escalating into a full-blown trade war.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Around this time, the report found that “virtually all other fire resources were still east of Lake Avenue and spread out over several miles,” with far from enough resources to respond to the escalating emergency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

But the tension at the Kinloch table was escalating.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti