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Recent Examples of Synonyms for escalations
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Space exploration is entering a new era, mirroring historical expansions where lasting wealth stemmed from infrastructure, not just initial discoveries.
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Republicans said the expansions from the pandemic era went too far and tried to persuade Democrats to fund a temporary spending bill that didn't address the expiring ACA subsidies, with promises of discussing ways to continue the subsidies later.
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Budget includes limited tax increases The budget aims to increase state revenues by billions of dollars by reforming a tax on healthcare providers, imposing a sales tax for certain software products and limiting tax breaks on large corporations.
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.
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This makes room for growths now forming new plants.
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The entire stalk, which appears to be the height of several grown men, is covered in growths that will eventually bloom, Callahan said.
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When grass creeps into flower beds, or mulch blends into the lawn, the entire landscape can lose its sense of structure.
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In some environments, workflows designed for speed begin slowing down again as manual review creeps back into the process.
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There were proliferations of bulbs that looked like something a pathologist might worry about and striations that might have been crops seen from above.
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