upturned

verb

past tense of upturn
as in rose
to move or extend upward at this point the road upturns steeply, the trees become scarcer, and the valley unfolds before you

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for upturned
  1. rose
  2. climbed
  3. ascended
  4. soared
  5. lifted
  6. mounted
Verb
  • Industrial equipment investment rose nearly 25%, which while not a straight AI trade, does partially reflect spending on data centers.
    — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Federal Reserve researchers found that manufacturers whose input costs rose most under the 2018 tariffs employed 2% fewer workers than those least affected.
    — Stuart Loren, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of rose
Verb
  • The outbreak remains concentrated in Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, where cases have climbed from 177 to 352.
    — Alex DeLuca, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The scouts said the object climbed quickly before appearing to disintegrate.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of climbed
Verb
  • That same year, Cruz Bustamante became the first Latino Assembly speaker, then lieutenant governor — the first Latino elected to statewide office in California since Pacheco ascended to the same position in the 1870s.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The line shrank as the Hurricanes ascended to the top spot in the AP Top 25.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of ascended
Verb
  • In Michigan, the state with the largest change, the average price soared more than 50% compared to a year earlier.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Caraway’s other plastic-free products, like cutting boards, have soared in sales over the past three years.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of soared
Verb
  • Or the season’s big reveal coming in the form of flashbacks that not only feel lifted from another, far less entertaining espionage drama, but lean on emotions the show, to the end, never actually earns.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The drug distributor also lifted its full-year profit outlook after just one quarter into its new fiscal year.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of lifted
Verb
  • Meanwhile, airborne early-warning aircraft often use large radar arrays mounted above the fuselage to provide surveillance over a broad area.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Concerns mounted in July, when OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached a company called Hugging Face.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of mounted
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