increasing scrutiny
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandscrutiny
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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scrutiny
noun[U]
uk/ˈskruː.tɪ.ni/us/ˈskruː.t̬ən.i/
the careful and detailed examination of something in order to get information ...
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(Definition ofincreaseandscrutinyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofincreasing scrutiny
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Failing that, acceptable careers were left to a patronage system underincreasingscrutiny.
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Recently, this record has been brought underincreasingscrutiny.
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Due to budget constraints, these systems are facingincreasingscrutiny.
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Thus, medical devices and the medical device industry have come underincreasingscrutinyand regulation (2;3).
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In recent years, the long-run money-income relationship has come underincreasingscrutiny.
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The spatial organization of vascular epiphytes in forests has come underincreasingscrutinyby canopy scientists over the last few years.
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If such an effect were to be found, it could be of critical importance as health care comes underincreasingscrutiny.
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National income accounts are coming underincreasingscrutinyas a possible method of assessing the sustainable consumption of a nation.
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Most national health systems are coming underincreasingscrutinywith a concern for containing costs, improving quality, and encouraging cooperation and balance between the private and public sectors.
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Health care is subject toincreasingscrutiny.
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That is an issue that will come underincreasingscrutiny.
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The welfare of animals in street markets has come underincreasingscrutinyrecently and has given rise to anxiety.
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All those changes mean that the practice of medicine takes place ever more in the limelight and is subject toincreasingscrutiny.
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As the content of comics matured throughout the 1980s, they became the subject ofincreasingscrutiny.
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The health hazards of these chemicals have attractedincreasingscrutiny, and they have been shown to reduce fertility in humans at levels found in households.
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In the late 2000s some kinds of neonicotinoids began to come underincreasingscrutinyover potential environmental impacts.
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Increasingscrutinyby bloggers has contributed to added public focus on this friendliness.
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Palm oil plantations are underincreasingscrutinyfor their effects on the environment, including loss of carbon-sequestering forest land.
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