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

Cathay also 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

But it is cultural figures like Aamron – and Honoré Sitsopé Sokpor, a poet known by his alias "Affectio" and jailed in January – who have inspired this latest upsurge in protests.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Then she relaxed into the tremendous upsurge as huge torrents of water heaved her toward the surface.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older