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The phrase "a marked escalation of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant increase or intensification of a situation, event, or condition.
Example: "The report highlighted a marked escalation of tensions between the two countries over trade disputes."
Alternatives: "a significant rise in" or "a notable increase in".
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In a marked escalation of violence in the Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli troops shot and killed four Palestinians today and wounded more than 125 demonstrators in a series of clashes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Army and Palestinians said.
The BBC's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said Mr Johnson wanted to kill the idea of a third runway for ever and this was a "marked escalation" of the dispute within the party.
The authors not only reported a relatively high prevalence of herbal medicine use in the cohort, but also demonstrated a marked escalation of prevalence from 33.6% during pregnancy to 87.7% during the postpartum period.
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Western diplomats talk of a marked escalation in dogfights between Turkish and Greek pilots over the Aegean.
Additionally, our data and studies by other groups demonstrate a marked escalation in the total numbers of circulating monocytes in the ApoE−/− mice fed a HFD, mainly due to an increase in the Ly-6Chi population [18,25 27].
In recent weeks, however, there has been a marked escalation in rhetoric from Pyongyang, following international condemnation of its nuclear test.
The classification of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror group is a marked escalation in the military-led government's campaign to suppress opposition – an effort it has branded a "war on terror".
But the dead cats were a marked escalation in intimidation.
The response shows a marked escalation in tensions between Kim Jong-un's regime and the West.
Although the pace of daily U.S. airstrikes against Afghanistan has not matched previous campaigns against Yugoslavia and Iraq, the attacks Monday represented a marked escalation in the nine-day-old anti-terrorism war and signaled it could be entering a new phase.
The past two or three decades have witnessed a marked escalation in Muslim-Coptic tensions, with violence erupting at increasingly shorter intervals.
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