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noun

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Recent Examples of mark up
Verb
Cruz and Cantwell are their parties’ highest-ranking members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which is scheduled to mark up the bill Wednesday. Miriam Waldvogel, The Hill, 29 July 2025 The Web Protection component marks up results in popular search engines, with a green icon for safe and a red one for dangerous. PC Magazine, 20 July 2025
Noun
Some of her friends and neighbors sold their own properties at a low cost to investors who then fixed them up and resold them at a higher markup, Neville says. Janelle Griffith, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Some e-commerce sites break down the price of their shirts or wallets by the cost of materials, labor, transportation, and tariffs – and compare their markup to the industry average. Alex Mayyasi, HubSpot, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mark up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mark up
Verb
  • Several colors are on sale now, and the white clover style is marked down to the lowest price.
    Melody Kazel, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Best Early Amazon Prime Day Shoe Deals Some of the comfiest walking shoes are marked down ahead of Prime Big Deals Days.
    Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 2018, a federal court ruled that parts of Texas’ credit card surcharge ban violated the First Amendment.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Transmission delivery charges are outside of the base rate, passed through to ratepayers as a separate surcharge on their monthly bill.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For more winter wonder nearby, find Santa in his secret lair atop Rochers-de-Naye, accessible via traditional cogwheel train, and discounted with the Swiss Travel Pass.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Youngism, the set of stereotypes and practices that discount younger workers as unreliable, lazy and disloyal, has outpaced any other type of ageism — and the economic impacts are startling.
    Jennifer Moss, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even if what Weyland-Yutani has is blood-sucking, eye-gouging, and chest-bursting alien monsters.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Nightly entertainment, including magic shows and live music, brings energy to the evenings.
    Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Nathaniel Lowe greeted Kyle Finnegan with a sacrifice fly that brought Boston within a run before the Tigers righty reliever could end the seventh.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to Fine Dining Lovers, the ideal time to harvest apples is between September and late October, so fetch them at their crispest.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For sellers who may have bought their homes at the height of the pandemic and were wishing to now fetch the same prices for them, Florida’s recent shift in favor of buyers is a tough pill to swallow.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Mark up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mark%20up. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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