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noun

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Recent Examples of uphill
Adjective
Beyond those new additions, the X Ultra carries over preexisting options like walking, gravel, uphill, downhill and stair profiles. New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025 Hogg has repeatedly maintained that the group would not target House Democrats facing uphill reelection bids, also known as Frontline Members. Julia Manchester, The Hill, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
Use the extra time of a holiday weekend for a quick jaunt in Leucadia — one that offers coastal views and a couple tough uphill climbs. Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2025 Like any outdoor sport, starting slow on low-risk, low-consequence roads and trails is best for getting to know your vehicle and practicing essentials like tire placement, navigating blind corners, and dealing with steep uphill and downhill roads. R. Scott Rappold, Denver Post, 4 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for uphill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uphill
Adjective
  • One of the world’s most persistent waste problems, plastics are durable and difficult to recycle.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But grass is difficult to digest for the mammal.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Within the eyewall, total structural failure is likely, especially in higher elevation areas where wind speeds atop and on the windward sides of hills and mountains could be up to 30 percent stronger.
    MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Founded in 1982, The property features 18 rooms, seven cabins, a spa, dining porch and wine cellar on 250 acres perched on a nearly mile-high ridgeline with mist-shrouded, forever views of the rolling hills.
    Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Even at the show itself, some onlookers had found Lantink’s first non-couture collection from the house for a decade or so too challenging for their sensibilities to compute.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2025
  • While its not uncommon for companies to establish new garment factories, new mills are more challenging.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, running or walking at pace at an incline on a treadmill didn't necessarily change how much effort my body was putting into the movement – if heart rate is anything to go by.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Our bed might not connect to the cloud and remain stuck at an incline.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether or not Takaichi's administration is as tough on immigration issues as her campaign rhetoric suggests, some observers warn that failing to actively invest in and integrate foreign nationals into society will have lasting harm on Asia’s second-largest economy.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Without a consolidation of that vote in the final stretch, Mamdani appears tough to beat.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But competing with Swift is basically impossible for anyone, which makes this report a little hard to believe.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Potato plants can survive a light freeze, but a hard freeze below 30 degrees will kill them off.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The discovery of the solar cycle now moved Carrington to undertake a rigorous study of sunspots that soon earned him a reputation as Britain’s premier solar observer.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Public markets offer transparency, governance, and liquidity; private firms, by contrast, often avoid periodic reporting and undergo less rigorous oversight.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the tale’s bitterest ironies is that Victor will become a more demanding, more neglectful, and vastly more destructive father figure than Leopold ever was.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Check-in bullies are the most demanding hotel guests.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Uphill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uphill. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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