Answer: ESCALATE
ESCALATE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 15 times.
Referring Clues:
- Step up
 - Snowball
 - Heat up
 - Intensify
 - Grow more intense
 - Kick up
 - Swell
 - Go up
 - Increase
 - Increase in intensity
 - Raise
 - Step up, as a conflict
 - Increase quickly
 - Get out of hand in a hurry
 - Get really serious really quickly
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - May 11, 2022
 - LA Times - February 20, 2021
 - New York Times - August 11, 2019
 - Netword - September 30, 2018
 - Netword - May 27, 2018
 - USA Today - November 17, 2017
 - Netword - January 28, 2017
 - Netword - February 02, 2016
 - Wall Street Journal - September 04, 2015
 - Universal - July 08, 2015
 - LA Times Sunday - January 04, 2015
 - Washington Post - April 03, 2014
 - Washington Post - March 04, 2013
 - Netword - February 10, 2013
 - Wall Street Journal - February 03, 2012
 - Washington Post - June 08, 2011
 - I Swear Crossword - July 02, 2010
 - LA Times - November 11, 2009
 - New York Times - September 05, 2009
 - USA Today - June 09, 2009
 
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