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[uhp-grayd, uhp-grayd, uhp-grayd, uhp-grayd] / ˈʌpˌgreɪd, ˈʌpˈgreɪd, ʌpˈgreɪd, ˈʌpˌgreɪd /


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Luckily, just a small upgrade changed her mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Sandisk and Lumentum recover some ground Monday, while CoreWeave falls despite a Goldman Sachs upgrade as AI financing concerns linger.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The clinic took up my claim, bringing a class-action lawsuit challenging the Army’s handling of discharge upgrade applications.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

With Sur’s upgrade, he’s now part of the majority.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Tom told me, “It won’t always be like this, they’ll eventually upgrade the line and then it will be fast trains screaming past,” but I couldn’t believe it would ever actually happen.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

Quarterly premium iron-ore production fell 4% to 13.8 million tons after planned plant upgrades hit output.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Meeting the electricity demands of large new data centres often requires major infrastructure upgrades, adding to connection delays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The money will go towards 14 schemes across England, including new urgent care centres, ambulance fleets and upgrades to emergency departments.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

However, the fastener-and-tool distributor spent more on property and equipment in the quarter than it did a year earlier, with investments in facility construction and upgrades, industrial vending equipment and information technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Newer, faster, or more versatile components were always being released, so I was constantly spending large chunks of my meager income on upgrades.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The IMF this week upgraded its world economic outlook, citing unexpected "resilience" in economic growth.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund upgraded its GDP forecast for this year to 1.1%, from 0.9% previously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The ONS also upgraded its estimate for June's monthly growth to 0.4% from 0.3%.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In its closely watched World Economic Outlook released on Tuesday, the IMF slightly upgraded its global 2026 forecast, while warning of a "split" state of affairs as wide-ranging risks test economic resilience.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Zeta-1’s upgraded download from the Collective proved fatiguing. That is all,” he says confidently.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

It said the government reformed the Electronic Communications Code because the cost of accessing land was becoming a "significant barrier" to building and upgrading the mobile networks across the UK.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

“By modernizing and upgrading turbines, steam generators, and digital control systems at operating plants, uprates deliver substantial capacity gains without the multi-year timelines or interconnection bottlenecks associated with greenfield construction,” the blog post noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

But for now that transformation is complicated by red tape and the high costs of upgrading railway infrastructure.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Bass embraced the $2.6-billion plan for upgrading the Los Angeles Convention Center, saying it would create much-needed jobs and breathe new life into downtown’s economy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Somebody else takes care of the upgrading and maintenance.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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