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escalations

n. (plural of escalation English)

Usage examples of "escalations".

The airbursts, the preemptive strikes, the massive retaliations, the uncontrollable escalations: it is already happening inside our heads.

On the first day, while strategic intentions were being tested and before the large-scale escalations, the navies of the Eastern and Western blocs destroyed each other.

And we can even find evidence of positive feedbacks, in the form of escalations (or, looking at it from the other direction, degenerations) in meaning.

He was hoping that the Vietnam escalations had not shut off the source of supply.