RUNUP Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

run-up

noun

Definition of run-up

as in countdown

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as in spike

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Recent Examples of run-up With a two-month run-up to the awards, the cast and crew are going to be together some more. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026 The Scottish Open isn’t just a full field event, but is also considered the final run-up to the Open Championship, the fourth and final major tournament of the season. — Jeff Hartman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Memory chip stocks have seen a massive run-up this year as a supply crunch, fueled by unrelenting artificial demand, allows businesses to set pricing. — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 7 July 2026 Even without inclusion of those IPOs, state finance officials this year upped their forecast of capital gains income Californians would earn due to the huge run-up in the stock market driven by AI companies. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for run-up

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Noun

During the countdown to the official release of The Odyssey, Zendaya has captured the spotlight in a series of spectacular dresses that nod to her character, the Greek goddess Athena.

— Luz García, Glamour, 18 July 2026
SpaceX called off a test flight of its powerful Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster as the countdown clock reached zero Thursday at the company’s spaceport in South Texas.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026

Definition of countdown

Noun

The Iran war has resulted in a significant spike in fuel prices – roughly 27% over the year – which trickles down through the economy.

— Elizabeth Canales, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
Semiconductors and computing equipment paved the way for the export demand growth amid the spike in global demand for AI hardware, while automobile shipments surpassed 1 million in a month for the first time.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 15 July 2026

Definition of spike

Noun

The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.

— Mike Wilson, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Hernandez, now a Southern Section champion again, along with all the other winners will move onto the CIF preliminaries next Saturday to face the rest of the state's top female jumpers, with a chance to get back to the state finals.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026

Definition of preliminary

Noun

On July 16, TSMC reported 707 billion New Taiwan dollars ($22 billion) in quarterly profit, a 77% jump year-on-year and significantly beating analyst expectations.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 16 July 2026
The comparable sales jump was traffic-driven, which is the healthy kind (as opposed to high prices, which people seem to be tired of).

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 16 July 2026

Definition of jump

Noun

PayPal has been working with investment banks on takeover and activist defense for the last few months and had already shrugged off initial overtures from Stripe, Semafor reported earlier this year.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
The musical’s overture gives you a sense of the complexity that’s needed to make seeming simple and straightforward material really soar.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026

Definition of overture

Noun

These Space Act Agreements were intended as a prelude to a second phase of the program, which would award substantially more funding to one or two more companies to proceed into the construction and launch of their space stations.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
Analysts widely believe Monday’s announcement is a prelude to eventual sales of both Comcast and NBCUniversal, a theory that Comcast rejects.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of prelude

Noun

However, stabilization over the past few weeks has allowed for an oversold upturn in the weekly stochastics and consecutive weeks of improving momentum, which increases the likelihood that EWZ has established a low.

— Katie Stockton, CNBC, 13 July 2026
The news came a day before Liz reported on Hong Kong’s beleaguered cinema market finally having an upturn, with overall box office revenues increasing by 25% thanks to a strong line-up of local and Hollywood releases.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 July 2026

Definition of upturn

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