The phrase "increasingly characterized" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or phenomenon that is becoming more defined or marked by certain traits over time.
Example: "The region is increasingly characterized by extreme weather patterns, affecting agriculture and local communities."
Alternatives: "growing more defined by" or "becoming more marked by".
The discovery underscored the sophistication and coordination that have increasingly characterized the attacks that have convulsed the country.
Le Bon believed that modern life was increasingly characterized by crowd assemblages.
Construction at the "urban fringe" is increasingly characterized by a standardization of design.
Since the end of World War II, a growing pacifism and risk aversion have increasingly characterized E.U. institutions.
"Japan's economy is increasingly characterized by strong personal consumption, supported by Abenomics and the baby boomer generation," Mr. Morita said.
Many of the city's other industries are also increasingly characterized not by a few large companies, but by sprawling networks of smaller ones.
Its methodology is emblematic of the icy distance that increasingly characterizes modern medical care.
Americans increasingly characterize Europeans as weaklings and cowards and criticisms of the Sharon administration and its conduct in Operation Defensive Shield as anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic.
Because employers, students and colleges have all been caught in the complex web of credentialing, job training and financial self-interest that increasingly characterizes American higher education.
Rather than emphasizing discipline, organization and uniformity of message, Mr. Alterman suggests, they favor self-criticism, diversity and fairness, which makes them weaker competitors, especially on the kind of sound-bitten yelling contests that increasingly characterize radio and television.
He straddled the north-south European cultural divide, but that experience just fostered his belief that internationalism would increasingly characterize music in the 20th century, which is what happened.
