upshot
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"It's on a very fast upshoot," says Jarrell.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
It has a student body capable of perpetrating the most ingenious and energetic pranks since Frank Merriwell pitched his upshoot for Yale.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gardens were all brown stalks and stubble and fallen leaves by now, and so was this one, except for one viny upshoot of green and red.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
They all watched to see it, lighting, crackling, smoking,—then the slender upshoot of flame—and Meredith began to pile on pine branches thick and fast.
From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan
"Better go back to the ship," said Ben, much disgusted at the upshoot of the expedition, and somewhat chagrined, too, if the truth must be told, at the professor's triumph over him.
From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by Goldfrap, John Henry
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