as in upheaval
a rapid or sudden increase
a recent upsurge in crime The mayor is enjoying an upsurge of popularity.
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Recent Examples of upsurge
Much more worrying is the broader upsurge in vaccine rejection, which threatens to introduce community spread of measles into the wider population.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Twin Cities, 16 July 2025
But so far, there hasn't been an upsurge in lead poisoning cases threatening to overwhelm the Health Department.
—Alison Dirr, jsonline.com, 14 July 2025
Scientists first proposed in the 1970s that a hot upsurge of material from Earth’s mantle, known as a plume, was occurring below this spot.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
Making the sextortion problem even worse is an upsurge in sextortion assistance companies which charge thousands of dollars for their help in stopping and removing the photos and videos from appearing online.
—Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Twin Cities, 16 July 2025
But so far, there hasn't been an upsurge in lead poisoning cases threatening to overwhelm the Health Department.
—Alison Dirr, jsonline.com, 14 July 2025
Scientists first proposed in the 1970s that a hot upsurge of material from Earth’s mantle, known as a plume, was occurring below this spot.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
Making the sextortion problem even worse is an upsurge in sextortion assistance companies which charge thousands of dollars for their help in stopping and removing the photos and videos from appearing online.
—Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for upsurge
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At some point, everyone faces upheaval; a layoff, a health scare, a collapsing industry, or simply the gnawing sense that the old way isn’t working anymore.—
Mark Murphy,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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This event triggered a massive upheaval in the global financial markets and signaled the intensification of the 2008 financial crisis.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The text records royal decrees including tax relief during poor Nile floods; donations to temples; the creation of a new priestly office; a festival tied to the heliacal rising of Sirius; and a calendar reform introducing a leap day every four years.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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The worst may yet to come as the companies buoyed by the rising of AI and its use are brought down to earth by a combination of new methods and the lessening of compute needed to do training as well as inference.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Kirk’s rise from a suburban Chicago teenager to the face of the Republican Party’s youth wing reshaped the political landscape and energized a new generation of conservatives.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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While the motivation behind the killing is still unknown, Kirk's death has escalated anxieties about the rise of political violence in the United States and the deepening divide within American society.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Club stock resumed its recent upswing with a 2% gain Thursday.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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The stock still appears relatively undervalued versus peers, with potential for an additional trillion-dollar upswing if further rulings are favorable; another decision due on September 10 could shape the next move.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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This is consistent with the upturn in the IWF/IWD ratio that also favors growth.—
Tom Aspray,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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But then, like how that summer’s World Cup prompted an upturn in football interest across England, 1990 also produced a wave of players who would contribute to the English national team reaching the past two European Championship finals.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The expiring boost, implemented in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act under former President Joe Biden, applies to 22 million of the 24 million low- and middle-income Americans with plans through the ACA marketplace.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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Approval would let Ripple operate as a federally regulated trust bank—a substantial legitimacy boost.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Where the gobs of torque on track felt sufficient, if not overwhelming, all of a sudden mashing the throttle at any point in the rev range provided more than enough thrust for any situation, even on steep mountain ascents.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This is greater than the thrust provided by the ion engine on board the Japanese Aerospace Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu, for example.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Upsurge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upsurge. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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