A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

NEARS

Sun, 15 Sep '24
Approaches
Fri, 17 May '24
Gets larger, visually
Sun, 28 Jan '24
Converges on
Fri, 6 Oct '23
Gets warmer, say
Sun, 3 Apr '22
Impends
Thu, 28 Oct '21
Gets warmer, so to speak
Sun, 12 Sep '21
Approaches
Tue, 30 Mar '21
Looms, say