- present tense form of up (3rd person singular).
ups
Example Sentences
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Osnabruck said the tifo symbolised its turbulent club history in a journey fans refer to as a "rollercoaster ride full of ups and downs".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Shares of companies tied closely to the economy’s ups and downs retreated on Friday: The Russell 2000 index dropped 1.4%, while the S&P 500 industrials sector slid 1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nine out of 10 of the most popular stocks for hedge funds are megacap tech companies and the ups and downs of the AI sector still drive their performance, their leverage and their positioning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Through years of typical relationship ups and downs, our attraction to each other has hardly wavered.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
There was something about the expressive ups and downs of the music—the fluid emotion that escaped with every twitch of V’s fingers—that V couldn’t pull herself away from.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
