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Recent Examples of upper
Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
An outdoor shower and expansive upper deck extend daily life outside.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 17 Feb. 2026
Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2026
Don’t be fooled by their sleek silhouette and sophisticated suede uppers, the shoes boast the comfort of your favorite sneakers thanks to their pillowy insoles and ample support.
—Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 14 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
The singer also doffed the top of his orange jumpsuit to reveal some sort of medical port or device inserted on the upper left side of his chest.
—Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
An outdoor shower and expansive upper deck extend daily life outside.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
The thick wedge heel makes these a perfect day-to-night boot, and to top it off, they’re crafted from a water-repellent upper for protection from the elements.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2026
Don’t be fooled by their sleek silhouette and sophisticated suede uppers, the shoes boast the comfort of your favorite sneakers thanks to their pillowy insoles and ample support.
—Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 14 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for upper
Noun
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On even longer timescales, the remnant black holes that were created, whether from stellar explosions, neutron star mergers, a collapsing gas cloud, or having grown into supermassive behemoths, will all evaporate.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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Trump has long touted – and exaggerated – the effects of lower gas prices.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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That includes finding out why the trip wasn't canceled.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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After a trip home to Florida for his grandson’s first birthday party, Griffey is visiting other WBC teams in Arizona, Houston and, finally, Florida, where he will be embedded with Team USA and taking photographs on the field and behind the scenes.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Her record won’t be matched for some time, as the runners-up – Drake and Mariah Carey – are steady with their 24 placements inside the uppermost tier.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The military said nearby civilian homes were also heavily damaged in the blast, killing a young girl and wounding seven other civilians, including women and children.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2026
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The blast was thunderous, swallowing the place.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But the rush of capital could make African economies overly reliant on commodity exports, leaving them vulnerable to international price swings while failing to add value domestically.—
Preeti Jha,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Another man who was injured was rush to a local hospital in critical condition, the MDSO says.—
Steven Yablonski,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The use of generative AI and LLMs for mental health advice is ranked as the topmost use of such AI currently on an across-the-board basis (see my assessment of the usage rankings at the link here).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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And the new MXene film was not only more flexible than ITO, but also increased brightness by almost an order of magnitude by making the contact between the topmost light-emitting organic layer and the film more efficient.—
Perri Thaler,
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Upper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upper. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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