upgrade
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On the side were little wheat rolls from The Fresh Market bakery, spread with pats of Kerrygold — a small but perceptible upgrade from the Bunny Bread and Country Crock of a few years earlier.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Mobile UK said that mobile operators had invested "billions of pounds to upgrade their networks across London" and were committed to working with the government and local councils to improve mobile phone service.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The investment management group’s AHL strategies are up 7% over the past six weeks, outperformance that will drive an upgrade to earnings-per-share in the third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Leeds are so well organised at the back with new goalkeeper James Trafford, who is an upgrade on last season, and and a new centre-half I like too, in Tarik Muharemovic.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“However, you have our most basic unit. Would you like us to upgrade her software, or adjust her settings, or polish out these scratches?”
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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K+N said the partnership includes Amazon Web Services, which encompasses equipment deployment, maintenance and upgrades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“I’m confident that we’re finding the right balance between high-priority safety upgrades, ongoing community engagement and long-term rightsizing,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A larger share of builders, 66%, were using sales incentives in September to boost sales, including mortgage-rate buydowns or free appliances as upgrades.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Water UK, which represents firms, said it understood that higher bills was never welcome, but the money was needed "to fund vital upgrades".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
With all his security upgrades, Thread has paid little attention to the fence, perhaps feeling harsh weather and wild animals are enough to keep everyone safely inside.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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Together with the upgraded High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, these improvements are expected to provide vastly larger data sets and give physicists new opportunities to investigate quantum phenomena at extreme energies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The new weapons are a mix of upgraded low-end arms and simplified high-end ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
While this will likely be upgraded at some point, Cryer, a veteran of the mining industry, acknowledges that predicting the long-run price of copper is far from straightforward.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
It was a bad time to do it again, as they debuted their upgraded engine at their home race.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
With the upgraded download she will be Zeta-2 for the rest of her life.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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“It has reached a point where upgrading units in workforce apartments doesn’t necessarily drive a monthly rent premium,” says Alex Killick, a managing director at CWCapital Asset Management, a real-estate financial-services company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Given the years-long time frames needed for construction projects, the district facilities team doesn’t want to delay upgrading facilities that students would immediately benefit from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
He said funding for repairing and upgrading the courts was not included in any council capital plans - and the club believes other towns have facilities that Derry is lacking.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Another obstacle is that upgrading an older data center to newer, less thirsty technology is expensive.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
In 1953, Evelyn had become set on upgrading her four- year certificate in general nursing.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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