: the chiefly northerly sections of a state
also
: the chiefly rural part of a state when the major metropolitan area is in the south
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That’s how monumental Wednesday’s 5-3 Game 3 victory upstate was for Florida.
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2024
The impact was felt throughout the Tri-State Area, including upstate in Syracuse, as well as in Philadelphia and as far away as Baltimore.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
The six men are incarcerated at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, which is located upstate, about 100 miles northwest of New York City.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
But soon entrepreneurs trying to win legal licenses were sounding alarms, too; even Ms. Brewer’s own cousin, who had signed up to be a licensed grower upstate, gave her an earful.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
These are some of the countless rules that teens had to follow at Academy at Ivy Ridge, a disciplinary boarding institution that operated in upstate N.Y. between 2001 and 2009.
—TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
Since 2010, she’s been based upstate, away from the hustle and chaos.
—Suyin Haynes, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
Trump’s team was organizing a fundraiser upstate, and Haley would soon be heading to her next meet-and-greet in the capital at Doc’s Barbeque.
—Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
Farmers upstate were growing fields of licit marijuana!
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2024
The impact was felt throughout the Tri-State Area, including upstate in Syracuse, as well as in Philadelphia and as far away as Baltimore.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
The six men are incarcerated at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, which is located upstate, about 100 miles northwest of New York City.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
But soon entrepreneurs trying to win legal licenses were sounding alarms, too; even Ms. Brewer’s own cousin, who had signed up to be a licensed grower upstate, gave her an earful.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
These are some of the countless rules that teens had to follow at Academy at Ivy Ridge, a disciplinary boarding institution that operated in upstate N.Y. between 2001 and 2009.
—TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
Since 2010, she’s been based upstate, away from the hustle and chaos.
—Suyin Haynes, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
Trump’s team was organizing a fundraiser upstate, and Haley would soon be heading to her next meet-and-greet in the capital at Doc’s Barbeque.
—Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
Farmers upstate were growing fields of licit marijuana!
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
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upstate
adjective
up·state
ˈəp-ˌstāt 
: of, relating to, or typical of a part of a state away from a large city and especially to the north
upstate
noun or adverb
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