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crescendo

In music, a term indicating an increase in the loudness of a passage by constant degrees. Crescendo poco a poco (‘growing little by little’) means that the crescendo should progress more gradually. The opposite marking is ‘decrescendo’ or ‘diminuendo’.



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Her arms and splayed fingers flittering, she moved to a haunting score by Etienne Schwarcz that veered from crescendoing violins to serene village sounds.
In a society beset with crescendoing paranoia over electronic surveillance (a 12-letter word for "spying"), one shudders to think how so invasive an approach to underwriting would likely play out.
This flexibility allowed Farmland to educate by conveying softer messages throughout the year, then crescendoing to effect intense, hard-hitting communications when Congress was ready to act.
 
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