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creeping

[ kree-ping ]

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noun

Slang. the act or practice of following someone persistently or stealthily, especially online:
Twitter and LinkedIn creeping is a normal part of my day.

adjective

advancing or developing gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else:
creeping inflation;
creeping socialism.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of creeping¹

creep + -ing ¹

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This is why we have seen temperatures gradually creeping up this week.

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This scam isn't limited to clinic jobs - it's creeping into other industries.

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All the while, the price kept creeping up and up.

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Yet when I went away to Manchester to study law in 2009 with a brand new group of flatmates, that feeling of being on the edge started creeping in again.

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The creeping horror at the center of Ishiguro’s science fiction is surrounded by the tensions of growing up in this literary page-turner.

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