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upswing

[uhp-swing, uhp-swing] / ˈʌpˌswɪŋ, ʌpˈswɪŋ /
NOUN
improvement
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Though he said his multiple downtown bars are on an upswing, Pouring With Heart’s restaurants did not succeed; the group shuttered all of its food-focused operations in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Other biopharma stocks are also on the upswing this week.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

After falling for much of 2025, US auto employment has been on an upswing for most of 2026.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The latest dollar upswing has been broad-based across major and Asian currencies, with higher Treasury yields, softer risk sentiment and elevated oil prices weighing on higher-beta currencies, lower-yielders and oil-importing currencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

There was no single reason for the sudden turnabout, the surprising upswing, the unexpected rash of sales.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Bank of America analysts said that price upswings and further volume growth amid the global AI infrastructure buildout should continue to support the island’s tech exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Anyone who is sold on oil stocks should consider the most volatile ones—those that have had larger upswings when crude gained and vice versa.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

For much of modern history, even the richest nations have been subject to big perennial upswings and crashes in commercial activity almost as fixed as the four seasons.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Though there have been some small upswings, Bitcoin hasn’t recovered, and the asset’s correlation with the U.S. dollar has reportedly gone negative.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2022

During his upswings, everyone wanted to be in his presence, but during his downswings, he was known to cast a cold shadow.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

In the white glare the girl saw Winthrope, crouched beneath her upswung door; and his face was as the face of a beast.

From Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennett

All that your courage has brightened, All that your pity protected,       Now it is grown; Over your shoulders upswinging,       Folds round your frame, Bringing in roses your name, Joyous the sprite of your poetry bringing.

From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer

Kille, kille, lambkin mine, Though it often be hard to climb Over the rocks upswinging, Follow thy bell's sweet ringing!

From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer


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