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Discover LudwigThe phrase "incremental to" is correct and commonly used in written English
It means "adding on to" or "contributing to" something in a gradual and consistent way. Example: The new data was incremental to our previous findings, providing more evidence for our hypothesis.
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The board president, Herbert H. Tate, said the three sides had decided to make the increases incremental to prevent "rate shock" for consumers.
Johnston Press said the £5m in savings, which are incremental to a previously announced £10m, will come "mainly in back office functions".
And Gary L. Crittenden, Citigroup's chief financial officer, on Thursday called the government's $25 billion investment in Citigroup "incremental to our thinking".
You know, sometimes these things happen, and you don't notice as much when you're in the middle of it because they seem incremental to you.
"The next generation is new social media, but that is incremental to meeting clients face to face, even with younger clients.
"The whole mortgage issue costs us so much money now, to me it is incremental" to the costs we are already bearing.
The assumption with climate change is that the real solutions are too complicated and abstract (try asking a customer to build a renewable energy economy) and the simple solutions are too incremental to be taken seriously (we all know that planting a tree won't cut it).
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Mr. Vilsack indicated that the United States was amenable to incremental steps to revive the beef trade to address Japanese concerns.
Car companies will be able to use the data to make incremental improvements to services.
It is pragmatic, incremental, willing to adapt to win and keep office.
"We have to take incremental steps to get the debt under control".
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