Increasing
Increasing adjective - Becoming greater or larger.
Returned and increasing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Returned" instead an adjective "Increasing".
Returned
Increasing and returned are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Increasing" instead an adjective "Returned".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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When Doug reappears, however, his anger that Peter never returned his calls leads to increasing Camp Gay.
Source: Straight Gay -
After increasing tension and a state of angry paranoia and mental illness, he returned home.
Source: Creator / Vincent van Gogh -
So, over the course of 11 years, she returned 13 times to the South, risking increasing danger each time, and never using the same route twice.
Source: Useful Notes / Harriet Tubman
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