"de plus en plus" meaning in French

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          "english": "Materials are getting more and more expensive.",
          "text": "Les matériaux deviennent de plus en plus chers.",
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          "english": "They're getting better and better.",
          "text": "Ils deviennent de plus en plus bons.",
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          "english": "Between the ages of one and two, the child […] increasingly expands his grasp of language, while he also understands more and more about what occurs around him […]",
          "ref": "1995, Jean-Pierre Dumont et al., Psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, volume 1, pages 52–3",
          "text": "Entre 1 et 2 ans, l’enfant […] comprend de mieux en mieux le langage, il est de plus en plus à même de comprendre ce qui se passe autour de lui […]",
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          "english": "There have never been so many working students in Belgium. The consequence of a relaxation of legislation over the last ten years in the face of shortages in certain sectors. But who are these student workers and why do they sacrifice their summer, and more and more the entire year, to work?",
          "ref": "2023 August 6, “Qui sont ces 627.000 étudiants-travailleurs, et pourquoi sacrifient-ils leur été?”, in Le Soir",
          "text": "Il n’y a jamais eu autant de jobistes en Belgique. La conséquence d’un assouplissement de la législation ces dix dernières années face à la pénurie dans certains secteurs. Mais qui sont ces étudiants-travailleurs et pourquoi sacrifient-ils leur été, et de plus en plus l’année entière, à bosser ?",
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        "more and more (used to express a progressive increase)"
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          "word": "de mieux en mieux"
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          "word": "de pire en pire"
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      "ipa": "/də ply.z‿ɑ̃ plys/",
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      "note": "according to context; in isolation"
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          "english": "They're getting better and better.",
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