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upsurge

[uhp-surj, uhp-surj] / ʌpˈsɜrdʒ, ˈʌpˌsɜrdʒ /


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That means the market has less cushion in the event of a new shock or upsurge in demand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The mountain also saw a "big upsurge" in heather beetles this year - possibly linked to milder winters.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

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

Fractile joins hardware startups that have been racing to bring products to market and strike deals with major customers as agentic AI provokes an upsurge in computing demand.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

I felt the stiffness that had collected in me departing, felt a new upsurge of hope.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

To hold the opinion that this upsurging of peoples can be met by proletarian-democratic compromises is childish.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the same way, all retailers and many manufacturers were being squeezed by upsurging commodity prices.

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 C. A. (Charles A.) Federer

The play of water evokes a melody of line and the result is a sense of upsurging joy.

From The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by W. G. Archer

And it was true, I could feel, just as I dreamed, the upsurging of the feeling, brimming over, boiling up, brimming over.

From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher




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