upbeat
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Friday's upbeat curtain-raising session featured eight finals over three hours and brought victories for several global stars including Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Masai Russell.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
And after posting an earnings beat and lifting its revenue forecast for a key segment Wednesday, investors now have more reason to be upbeat about the cloud-based data-storage provider.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Our ads are always fun, they’re upbeat, like it makes you feel good. And we know that this did not make people feel good.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Parton’s upbeat performance of this tune is deceptive.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
“But she wasn’t a negative person. She didn’t bring down the mood of the group. She was energetic and upbeat almost every day.”
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
“He took care with short notes that shouldn’t be hurried over, and with upbeats, which can be more important than downbeats — all the things that magic is made of.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2017
An unusually upbeat beginning to the festival, then, or at least it would have been were Dennehy's upbeats more easily distinguished from his down.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2012
Tuesday’s first set began as the album does: with “España,” a kinetic concoction set in 5/4 meter, its springy melody hitting the upbeats in a minor scale.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2011
The first important bebop drummers, of which he was one, used silences and moderation and self-imposed restrictions to make their sneaked upbeats pop more vividly.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2010
Turnage was lucky to find an ideal conductor in David Robertson, a musician both consistently upbeat and unfailingly precise with his upbeats.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010
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