upper

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"There's a real stiff upper lip Britishness about it," he says.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Thomas Chou, a managing partner at the law firm Morrison Foerster, spent much of his 30s and 40s doing yoga, hiking and training his upper body.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

But the 2-year yield’s move above the Fed’s 3.7% upper limit of its target funding range is particularly noteworthy, as the below chart shows.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

The calculations also confirmed that every doubling of CO2 leads to about 8 degrees Celsius of cooling at the stratopause, the upper boundary of the stratosphere.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

He took out his handkerchief and blotted furiously at his upper lip, his freckles standing out like specks of dirt against his reddening complexion.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros