upgrade
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On the side were little wheat rolls from The Fresh Market bakery, spread with pats of Kerrygold — a small but perceptible upgrade from the Bunny Bread and Country Crock of a few years earlier.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Paying for an airline seat upgrade doesn’t always guarantee you’ll get what you paid for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Series 12 or Ultra 4 is worth the upgrade if your watch is older than that, or if you’re serious about health and fitness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Mobile UK said that mobile operators had invested "billions of pounds to upgrade their networks across London" and were committed to working with the government and local councils to improve mobile phone service.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Maybe an upgrade wouldn’t be so bad after all.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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“I’m confident that we’re finding the right balance between high-priority safety upgrades, ongoing community engagement and long-term rightsizing,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A larger share of builders, 66%, were using sales incentives in September to boost sales, including mortgage-rate buydowns or free appliances as upgrades.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
MS upgrades Renault to equalweight from underweight, and raises the target to 31 euros from 25 euros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
We understand increasing bills is never welcome, but the money is needed to fund vital upgrades to secure our water supplies, support economic growth and end sewage entering our rivers and seas.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“I wish I could, but it’s up to the owner. And those upgrades cost money.”
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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Together with the upgraded High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, these improvements are expected to provide vastly larger data sets and give physicists new opportunities to investigate quantum phenomena at extreme energies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Back in 2018, the hospital's air conditioning units had been approved to be replaced and upgraded, but eight years later this hadn't happened.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
While this will likely be upgraded at some point, Cryer, a veteran of the mining industry, acknowledges that predicting the long-run price of copper is far from straightforward.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Also, visible puzzles still pop up on websites that haven’t upgraded to newer captcha technologies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
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The firm's design has been commissioned for use on two of its three planned routes for upgrading the electricity grid across mid and west Wales.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Given the years-long time frames needed for construction projects, the district facilities team doesn’t want to delay upgrading facilities that students would immediately benefit from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
That’s partly because writing code is different from maintaining and upgrading established systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Another obstacle is that upgrading an older data center to newer, less thirsty technology is expensive.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
In the nylon webbing pocket in front of him was an in-flight magazine with an article in it about camels, which he’d read, and another about upgrading your business wardrobe, which he hadn’t.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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