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Increase in destruction of a coastline (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

escalation

'increase' is the definition.
(I know that escalation is a type of increase)

'destruction of a coastline' is the wordplay.
'destruction of' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'coastline'='acoastline'
'acoastline' anagrammed gives 'ESCALATION'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for escalation that I've seen before include "Rapid growth" , "sudden rise" , "expansion" , "Rapid rise in level" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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