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
"That's why we are tripling investment over the next five years to halve spills from storm overflows and upgrade the capacity of 1,700 wastewater treatment works," a spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 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
Analyst Roger Samuel thinks that rising power-purchase agreement prices probably prompted dual-listed Infratil to upgrade its target operating fleet at Boston-based Longroad to 14.3 gigawatts from 11.5 GW.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Today he’d removed it from the control panel and shut down Festus the figurehead for maintenance—something about rewiring his processor for a motor-control upgrade with the sphere, whatever the heck that meant.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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State parks officials said in a release that the improvement project includes installation of new gas, water, wastewater and communication lines, along with accessibility upgrades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
“We believe the guidance supports additional earnings upgrades and could translate into mid-single digit upside to consensus EPS,” the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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
I used them whenever the Vonnegut needed repairs or upgrades.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
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’s often a sign that a site hasn’t upgraded, says Abhishek Hemrajani, senior director of cloud security at Google Cloud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
“There is no need for that. Place her back in the pod. With the upgraded download”—she leans over Suma’s pod screen—“Suma Agarwal will be Zeta-2 for the rest of her life.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
"Digital connectivity has vastly improved across the country, what we need to do is put in resources and focus on upgrading infrastructure and move to computer-based exams," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
HPE CFO Marie Myers told MarketWatch that customers are both upgrading data centers to meet new workload demands and moving to adopt AI in enterprise settings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Albanese said Australia's upgrading of security ties in the Pacific had been "extraordinary", after the country signed defence alliances with Papua New Guinea and Fiji, and a security and economic deal with Vanuatu.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Somebody else takes care of the upgrading and maintenance.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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