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| bandwagon |
an increasingly popular or successful movement or cause. [1/2 definitions] |
| climax |
the point of highest interest or intensity in a series of increasingly important points or events. [1/5 definitions] |
| lighten1 |
to become brighter or increasingly light in color. [1/3 definitions] |
| Negro leagues |
former U.S. baseball leagues in which all players were Black. The Negro leagues were most prominent from the 1920s to the early 1950s, after which Black players were increasingly integrated into the U.S. major leagues. [1/2 definitions] |
| pejoration |
the historical process by which a word acquires increasingly negative connotation, and eventually, negative denotation. (Cf. melioration.) [1/2 definitions] |
| progressive |
of an illness or disease, becoming increasingly worse. [1/8 definitions] |
| restless |
increasingly active or stimulated to action. [1/5 definitions] |
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