variants
or step ups
as in increases
something added (as by growth)
there's been a step-up in productivity since regular breaks were offered
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Recent Examples of step-ups
The exercise program involved two group exercise classes per week, including 30 minutes of intervals on an exercise bike, then 15 minutes of circuit training (step-ups, boxing, squats, kettlebells, and so on).
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Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Examples include air squats, step-ups, push-ups, and dips.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Dec. 2025
Exercises like wall-sits, clam shells, step-ups, and Romanian deadlifts target the knees and surrounding muscles to improve strength and stability.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Examples include air squats, step-ups, push-ups, and dips.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Dec. 2025
Exercises like wall-sits, clam shells, step-ups, and Romanian deadlifts target the knees and surrounding muscles to improve strength and stability.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for step-ups
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Success, Guerra said, will depend in part on whether the county will contribute its portion of the property tax increases, and on officials’ ability to attract new, for-profit businesses to the area.—
ANNIKA MERRILEES,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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But so did a Platte County measure to cap future property tax increases, which still has a court batle before it.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf, weighing in at a thousand pages and containing over 1,400 letters (additions to the 3,766 letters that were published in six volumes, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, between 1975 and 1980), is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.—
Hermione Lee,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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The additions represented a welcome counterpoint to what occurred during much of 2025, when job losses consistently haunted the Bay Area.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
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There are no must-wins in March or April, only morale boosts at the beginning of a marathon.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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Then, just start making your trades to put your profit boosts to work and unlock your bonuses.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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In the decades after the Second World War, this principle was widely enforced through labor contracts, and big companies tended to share their economic gains with their employees.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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With the conflict in the Middle East raging on during the Weekend, stock futures fell on Sunday, after posting gains last week on hopes of a de-escalation.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Step-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/step-ups. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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