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Meanings of ratchets up in English

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Usage of ratchets up in English
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As the pressure ratchets up Countrywide has responded with its own online business.
Reuters
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And The Joy of Geocaching ratchets up the excitement even more.
Wired
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Second, it ratchets up the biblical living to a whole new level of awkwardness.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
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Advertising ratchets up the stress, and places us in imagined competition with each other.
The Guardian
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When every company does this, pay ratchets up pretty quickly.
BBC
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Taking her into custody ratchets up the trouble for Huawei.
Reuters
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For its Liverpool offering, Radisson Blu ratchets up the drama.
The Guardian
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Disturbance builds up social problems and ratchets up the future cost of dealing with them.
Independent.ie
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There are no ravaging monsters, just poignant, understated prose that imperceptibly ratchets up the tension.
The Guardian
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They may well be wrong, but the suspicion alone ratchets up the prospect of dangerous mistakes.
Reuters
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Campos ratchets up the tension in the final act as we learn more about Simon's past.
The Guardian
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The move ratchets up the dispute, which had already seen trade tariffs being imposed earlier this year.
BBC
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Oddly enough, there's a tension in the film that ratchets up and the camera still doesn't move.
Wired
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The statement from the populist Sadr ratchets up the tension between the cleric and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The Irish Times
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Its 10th outing ratchets up the dismemberment further still, but somehow manages to be more funny than repulsive.
The Guardian
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In the latter scenario I start racing to beat the pump, and this haste ratchets up my anxiety.
Climbing Magazine
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Ratchets up across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common