escalated
Example Sentences
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As the bidding war escalated, Koontz and his partners started eliminating studios that didn’t seem to be as familiar with the material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, racism and discrimination must be treated as a critical safety issue, the inquiry found, requiring urgent intervention including gathering granular data on unequal outcomes that is escalated to board level when patterns emerge.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
According to the petition, the fight escalated, and Will Robinson phoned the police while Sandoval hid inside a spare bedroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
From there, the claims escalated with remarkable speed.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 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
