Ratcheting in a sentence

After a blowout July retail sales report on Tuesday was followed yesterday by news of a surprising surge in US industrial output and housing starts last month, third quarter US gross domestic product estimates are ratcheting higher.

And just was curious you felt like it was still ratcheting higher in terms of what you're seeing promotional activity in your markets or is it -- maybe it adds a little bit since maybe the heavy period of late May?

As would be expected with a tighter runtime to the story, much of this is glossed over so that it can focus on ratcheting up the stakes.

He adds you can save a bit of money by ratcheting that number down.

In america, a warmth dome stretched from Texas to Florida all the way in which as much as the tip of Missouri, ratcheting up the warmth index — a mixture of temperature and humidity — to above 110 levels Fahrenheit in some locations.

Of course, the United States government has never waited for anyone to reach the border before ratcheting up the hostility.

The order came at a time when general elections are about two months away and political parties are ratcheting up their poll campaigns across the country.

Warnings by Israel that its war against Hamas in Gaza will last for months, despite US pressure for a ratcheting down of the intensity of the conflict, threaten to heighten the chances war could spin out of control and drag the US further in.

But what looks like restoring democracy from one angle looks like a further ratcheting up of the stakes of power from another.

Israel has clearly signaled to everyone that its gradually ratcheting military pressure in Lebanon up notch after notch is designed to get Hezbollah to stop firing and to enable its displaced citizens to return home.

Other features such as a strong 1/2 inch ratcheting chuck, a detachable side handle, and a built-in LED light aid in the tool's usefulness.

That approach stemmed partly from the hope among landlords and lenders that the Federal Reserve, after ratcheting up interest rates over the last two years, would ease or cut rates relatively quickly.

They say Modi’s party is also ratcheting up polarising speeches to distract voters from larger issues, like unemployment and economic distress, that the opposition has focused on.

Wall Street has already over the possibility of inflation reigniting under a second Trump term, with bond yields ratcheting higher leading up to Election Day and in the weeks after.

Walz might be Harris’s trump card in ensuring that Washington and Beijing find each other and find a way of working together without ratcheting up the tension between the two countries.

Washington annually gives Israel more than $3 billion in aid, ratcheting that figure up threefold since Oct. 7 with massive weapons supplies.

After unilaterally withdrawing from Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, President Donald Trump began ratcheting up sanctions.

But even though this slow ratcheting up of policies will mean that any eventual lockdown comes as less of a shock it doesn’t mean that everyone in the UK is adequately prepared for it.

But the process has become increasingly ugly, with the partisanship ratcheting up in the past decade.

China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades.