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up

[uhp] / ʌp /
PREPOSITION
situated above
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WEAK


PREPOSITION
moving from the earth
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WEAK
VERB
elevate
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ADJECTIVE
next in turn
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"Our findings suggest that control for actions is highly distributed in local modules that link up and work together in different ways," Bates said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

“Even when I was coming up in Fringe, I was not always comfortable as a woman, and that was a problem,” Den Herder said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

By measuring the generated thrust and operating the thrusters continuously for periods of up to 100 hours, the team was able to assess the fuel's performance and efficiency.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Mexico has given up just one goal in the past eight months.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

They have the full arsenal of CTs and MRIs—noninvasive brain scanners that can electronically "slice up" a brain and lay it out, level by level, like the floor plan of a house.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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