upswing

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Recent Examples of upswing Still, his family’s attorney argued, the 27-year-old pitcher was in the upswing of his career, leading the team in innings pitched and starts. Sean Emery, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025 Sure, pop and hip-hop may still ultimately dominate the top 40 arena, but the gentle upswing in popularity for a genre long clowned for being dead is obviously noteworthy. Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025 The upswing in Stellantis' sales stands in contrast to the company's performance in recent memory. Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025 The upswing in Stellantis' sales stands in contrast to the company's performance in recent memory. Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for upswing
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Noun
  • This week saw Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos descending on the Eternal City to announce the streaming giant’s plans to help revive a storied cinema, as well as a host of international TV executives mooting the possibility of an upturn that could pull the global drama biz out of its recent doldrums.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Under Brown’s leadership, McLaren has seen a dramatic upturn in fortunes in F1, winning the constructors’ championship for the last two years.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yet, the severity of gendered crime during Partition wasn’t caused by an arbitrary upsurge of madness.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This significant upsurge is a result of a positive assessment from Citron Research, a prominent newsletter led by renowned short-seller Andrew Left, which suggested that the market is undervaluing LoanDepot’s mortgage servicing portfolio.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The debate over Vietnam divided the rising baby boomer generation from their parents and fueled a cultural upheaval.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In a world fraught with real-life villains, political upheaval and a collective sense of hopelessness, fantasy steps in to inspire people to carry on, and that rings especially true for LGBTQ+ teens.
    Brittany Johnson, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Last year, at the age of eighty-six, Hopkins appeared as the Roman emperor Vespasian on TV, in Those About to Die, the thrust of his performance being to treat the show’s title with scorn.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • To be fair to Dowdle, in the skit, the third thrust resulted in the transgression.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Meantime — as semis grow stupendously overbought relative to their own uptrend — financials, consumer cyclicals and the equal-weight S & P 500 are all down a bit for the week.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The share price is likely to fall to $210 before a sustained uptrend can begin.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Upswing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upswing. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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