upticks

noun

plural of uptick
as in increases
something added (as by growth) an uptick in sales over the last fiscal year

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Recent Examples of upticks Control of Congress Amid rising prices on fuel and food, upticks in unemployment and a national hiring slowdown, consumer confidence in the economy has dropped to its lowest point in over a decade. — Dorian Rhea Debussy, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026 As people resumed gatherings and eased up on measures including masking and social distancing, the county saw upticks in flu cases in 2024 and 2025. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 With inflation expected to worsen as a result, even the small upticks in the latest data carry outsized weight for the Fed. — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026 Josh Downs and Keenan Allen would get slight upticks, but not tier-breaking jumps. — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Intermediate-term downside momentum is also easing, reflected by consecutive upticks in the weekly MACD histogram. — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, leaders see productivity upticks in various parts of their organizations but often have little understanding of the reasons for them or the costs behind them. — Ameya Kanitkar, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Friday saw the release of July’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing that the United States lost 23,000 jobs throughout the month after four months of upticks. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2026 Despite recent upticks in the amount of time men spend on unpaid household work, women still do significantly more. — Marianne Cooper, Time, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for upticks
  1. increases
  2. boosts
  3. gains
  4. additions
Noun
  • Scheibenbogen reports that the kids who cut out social media entirely showed modest increases in mental well-being that started wearing off five weeks later.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • With the combination of high-efficiency amplification and low-loss fiber, Petal doubles cable capacity without proportional power increases.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of increases
Noun
  • Iowa bettors regularly take advantage of BetMGM’s odds boosts and profit tokens for the four major sports.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Simple tilt fix Researchers found that tilting a cell relative to gravity boosts performance.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of boosts
Noun
  • After a month, the ketogenic group showed clear metabolic improvements; the more striking psychiatric and cognitive gains turned up at four months—by which point the diet had been offered to everyone, eliminating the control-group comparison.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Each time a tool takes over a task, retire a meeting or report so efficiency gains reduce the load rather than add to it.
    — Tyson Gundersen, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of gains
Noun
  • In both North America and Europe, clean electrification and digital infrastructure are outstripping renewable additions like wind and solar.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • This is the specific problem Dell Technologies is addressing with the newest additions to the Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA, the data context layer of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.
    — Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of additions

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