as in to creep up
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That September-like chill will persist Wednesday before temperatures creep up a few more degrees, but still remain a bit cooler than normal on Thursday.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
22 Aug. 2025 -
As higher tariff rates continue to creep up, stagflation and even a recession become likelier, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told NBC News last week.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
7 Aug. 2025
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Soon, photos of it turned up online and quickly spread across social media.—
Janis Mackey Frayer,
NBC news,
4 Feb. 2026
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Intensive searches at the time and in succeeding decades have turned up no evidence of the plane’s wreckage.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2026
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Bill Clinton is among the political and business leaders who socialized with Epstein and showed up in the DOJ's Epstein file releases.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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Johansson shows up on a jet ski to coax them down to the party.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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As court proceedings have begun, some of those documents will be coming unsealed, including the affidavit.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Feb. 2026
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Any future erosion would have to come overwhelmingly from one of two places.—
Craig Gilbert,
jsonline.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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There is one month until warmer weather and longer daylight hours arrive in the United States.—
Jordan Green,
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
8 Feb. 2026
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The biggest event in sports has arrived, and the NFL’s final game of the season brought the biggest names in the sport to the West Coast this week.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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