upsurge
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These days, the upsurge in streaming television and its hunger for content has made books an even more ubiquitous source of intellectual property for the small screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Scientists say that last year's upsurge was driven by fast-growing numbers of bears, combined with a falling human population, especially in rural areas.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Cathay said extra flights to Europe would be operated in March to cater for an upsurge in demand.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
In 1917, during World War I, Weber detected an upsurge of irrationality that suggested sociology cannot master religion—the return of the ancient gods as disenchanted “impersonal forces,” notably in the impolite social form of politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Sergei Diaghilev, art, dance and music lover, saw in this upsurge of Russian cultural pride an opportunity.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
There have been previous upsurges of mass protest.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Analysts at BoFA Global Research cautioned that past instances when the S&P has gone long without a 5% pullback ended with upsurges of volatility in August 2015 and February 2018.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2021
After that, anomie set in, broken now and then by upsurges in talk of further manned voyages to the moon and a new quest to place astronauts on Mars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
Parkview’s Dr. Jason Row said recent upsurges in cases and hospitalizations at his facilities seem to mirror some dropped caution as stay-at-home rules are relaxed.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2020
More recently, many of these troops have been redeployed back to Burundi to deal with periodic upsurges in rebel activity.
From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
That's certainly what I think happened with Ariel – her whole trauma, her father's death upsurged.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
Other topics discussed at the Philadelphia meeting: �Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the �lan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the same way, all retailers and many manufacturers were being squeezed by upsurging commodity prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
To hold the opinion that this upsurging of peoples can be met by proletarian-democratic compromises is childish.
From Time Magazine Archive
Per�n quickly consolidated his power by putting his men in control of the upsurging industrial trade unions, long suppressed by the country's ruling clique of landowners.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was followed by an upsurging wave from the ocean, which added to the fear of the people, but which receded slowly and with little damage.
From Plotting in Pirate Seas by Federer, C. A. (Charles A.)
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