Don’t use this word.<\/p>\n
Adverbs can be suspect in the best of circumstances. Most of the aides who had been wandering around the convention center had found refuge backstage, away from the crowds staring at big screens hoping for a victory. \u201cThe path kept narrowing and narrowing and narrowing until there wasn\u2019t one,\u201d Parkhomenko recalled. \u201cThe mood behind the stage became increasingly<\/span> grim.\u201d – The Hill<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The following trend ‘increased’ over years, until it was ‘resounding’.<\/p>\n Increasingly<\/span>, leading cities are hiring \u201cdata people.\u201d Whether with the title chief data officer, chief innovation officer, performance stat program director, or data scientist, these individuals are looking at government in a new way and using data to increase efficiency. Are these hires worth the investment? Resoundingly<\/span>, the answer is yes. – GovTech<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n But why is gradualism so revered by the writer? It is not how the world works. And it might stand in the way of clarity: does she mean that each city is hiring more ‘data people’? Or that more cities are doing the hiring?<\/p>\n Perhaps ‘data people’ should be in the lead.<\/p>\n You have so many options. Don’t use ‘increasingly’, ever. And for sure don’t use it in a song.<\/p>\n Long blends of days Just don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don’t use this word. Adverbs can be suspect in the best of circumstances. Use them sparingly Be frugal in their usage. One adverb in particular, ‘increasingly‘, gives the writer up as lazy. But for some reason, ‘increasingly’ crept into the lexicon two or three decades ago, used by newspaper reporters as an easy way to … <\/p>\nUse them sparingly<\/del> Be frugal in their usage. One adverb in particular, ‘increasingly<\/span>‘, gives the writer up as lazy. But for some reason, ‘increasingly’ crept into the lexicon two or three decades ago, used by newspaper reporters as an easy way to reference a trend, even if the trend had just developed over the past few hours instead of, say, months or years.<\/p>\n\n
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\nStream into nights
\nConsciousness barely coping
\nThe land going by seems level
\nBut really the tracks are
\nIncreasingly<\/span> sloping.
\n– ‘Slice of Time’ by David Crosby<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n