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Example sentences for: creep

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Definitional creep is clearly at play here, too.
The phenomenon of number creep is bad because we want analysts to reach conclusions they think are true, and not conclusions that they think are going to get them on CNBC.
She boldly marched into a bookstore and asked the salesclerk for a copy each of Hemingway's The Sun Come Up Again and Throw Away the Gun and Steinbeck's The Angry Grape . Is there a term for the errors that creep in while translating a passage back into the original tongue?
Even in these "serious" cases, the study seems affected by definitional creep.
But Shlaes tries to resurrect it by discussing "real bracket creep"--the process of people shifting into higher tax brackets as their real income climbs.