geometrical progression

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And he said Wagner's casualties were "growing in geometrical progression every day" because of the lack of ammunition.

From BBC • May 7, 2023

Human increase, he says, is a "geometrical progression."

From Time Magazine Archive

The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."

From Time Magazine Archive

Each new mastery of nature or self was a power for the future, for civilization is cumulative in its nature; it works in a geometrical progression.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)