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Stocks fell during Wednesday's regular trading session, thanks to another rout in the chip sector and a ramp-up in tensions with Iran.—Lisa Kailai Han,justina Lee, CNBC, 10 June 2026 Extensive design iterations, airworthiness certification, and manufacturing validation requirements make the path to mass production longer and more complex, resulting in a gradual ramp-up in deliveries.—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026 In the meantime, Durán also caught Canning’s ramp-up starts at Triple-A El Paso, so that was an opportunity to give Fermin an extra breather.—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026 Behind the story One of the really big stories on my beat covering China for the last decade has been Beijing's intensive ramp-up in detaining and persecuting Uyghurs, a primarily Muslim ethnic minority.—Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for ramp-up
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Etymology
derivative of the phrasal verb ramp up — more at ramp entry 2