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Recent Examples of upper
Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 27 Jan. 2026
Hard freezes are expected each morning, with temperatures dipping into the middle to upper 20s.
—Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
The Lo Lowmel channels all of that Ugg goodness, but features laces, skips the fur, and incorporates breathable mesh into the suede upper.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 17 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
Black suede dresses the upper, with red used for the tongue’s Jumpman logo and medial window.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 27 Jan. 2026
Hard freezes are expected each morning, with temperatures dipping into the middle to upper 20s.
—Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
It’s made with buttery-soft faux leather and has a smooth upper, giving it a sleek profile.
—Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
The Lo Lowmel channels all of that Ugg goodness, but features laces, skips the fur, and incorporates breathable mesh into the suede upper.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for upper
Noun
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Themed decor featuring classic cars, gas pumps, and a true 1920s garage vibe.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
29 Jan. 2026
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Cosmic ray detectors hunt rare antideuterons as dark matter annihilation signatures—but galactic cosmic rays smashing into interstellar gas also produce them, creating background noise.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Gemini can now pull context from emails, schedules, and travel searches to help users plan trips, draft messages, or find relevant information faster.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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And in a scientific article that was just published in late 2025, it was incidentally caught during a recreational fishing trip off the coast of northwestern Africa.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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But the uppermost part is constructed of sheets of metal mesh, allowing light to stream down from above, all the way to the main floor.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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While that’s less than Monday’s 6,100 cancellations and Sunday’s 11,600—the most since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic—airlines could face further disruptions as another arctic blast looms later this week.—
Jordan Erb,
Bloomberg,
27 Jan. 2026
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Most of them were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages on northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.—
Russ Bynum,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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The ‘combination’ fix for the Panthers’ pass rush Morgan hasn’t been shy about criticizing his team’s lack of pass rushing production in 2025 since the Panthers’ brief playoff run concluded earlier this month.—
Mike Kaye
Updated January 26,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Los Angeles County Republican Party, however, cautioned against a rush to judgment in what is certain to be another highly volatile case.—
Madeline Armstrong,
Daily News,
25 Jan. 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 2 Feb. 2026.
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