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decreasingly
adverb
uk /dɪˈkriː.sɪŋ.li/ us /dɪˈkriː.sɪŋ.li/
in a way that is less than previously:
Government controls on technology are decreasingly effective.
Polls suggest that Americans are decreasingly likely to agree.
Increasingly large expenditures will be needed to obtain decreasingly smaller amounts of energy.
People tend to think of libraries as mainly being about books, which they still are, but decreasingly so.
It is decreasingly clear what this war was meant to achieve.
Our society needs to become more pedestrian-friendly and decreasingly dependent on cars.
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