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Thread #50107   Message #760641
Posted By: Deda
06-Aug-02 - 11:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Meaningless phrases
Subject: RE: BS: Meaningless phrases
"Increasingly" is also increasingly misused. I've seen thing like, "Glaciers are getting increasingly smaller", or "We take vacations increasingly less often." Those are oxymorons. I've also seen it as a ridiculous redundancy, as in "the baby grows increasingly bigger". As opposed to????