pump up
Example Sentences
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In April, those numbers came in at multi-year highs, with fuel prices at the pump up around 51 percent since the war began, and grocery prices at their highest level since 2023.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
Wall Street veteran Ed Yardeni is the latest to pump up his S&P 500 target for 2026, raising it from 7,700 to 8,250 as he tracks analysts’ rising optimism about corporate profits.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
Exxon XOM -3.65%decrease; red down pointing triangle recently outlined a potential plan to pump up to $24 billion into Nigeria’s deep-water oil fields, while Chevron expanded its footprint in Venezuela.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Saudi Arabia, for example, has its East-West pipeline which runs from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and can pump up to 7 million barrels of oil per day.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
“And that’s when they pump up the air-conditioning in the gym for a little old-fashioned Culver Creek basketball. You can’t miss the first game of the year.”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
