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Recent Examples of upper
Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2025
Now legacy media look like minnows compared with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, all of whom will be at Sun Valley, rocking their sweater vests and enjoying the view from the upper echelons of power.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 9 July 2025
Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
The full-leather upper is easy to spot clean and keep in tip-top shape for any and all summer adventures.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 11 June 2025
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Adjective
This slight chance of thunderstorms lingers into Wednesday as the upper low passes over the region.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2025
Now legacy media look like minnows compared with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, all of whom will be at Sun Valley, rocking their sweater vests and enjoying the view from the upper echelons of power.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 9 July 2025
Noun
In the 1910s, Keds and Converse created some of the first versions of the style with white canvas uppers and rubber soles.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
The full-leather upper is easy to spot clean and keep in tip-top shape for any and all summer adventures.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for upper
Noun
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Oil and gas stocks fell after the OPEC+ alliance on Saturday agreed to a bigger-than-expected production increase.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
8 July 2025
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And these particular reservoirs of oil and gas worked their way upward through layers of rock until they became enmeshed in the sandstone.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
8 July 2025
Noun
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But as secrets surface and their relationship unravels, the couple’s trip turns sinister.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
9 July 2025
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Empty the mailbox before leaving on a trip, and be sure to sort through mail that's been piling up.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Back in November 2023, Danse Macabre launched and immediately reached the uppermost tier.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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In the past two weeks, Israel has eliminated the uppermost ranks of Iran’s military and intelligence leadership and of its nuclear scientists.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
Noun
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Spending included outlays for consulting, text blasts and mailings.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
7 July 2025
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But on Friday night, the booms and blasts of celebratory fireworks appear to have frightened them away.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2025
Noun
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These scam websites, filled with phishing traps, malware and fake products, were created in the past two months, just in time for the Prime Day rush.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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In sport’s rush to innovate, digital ventures haven’t always paid off.—
Rick Burton,
Sportico.com,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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Solving world hunger and other topmost global issues would seem suitable to tackle (for my analysis of using existing AI to attend to the United Nations SDGs aka sustainable development goals, see the link here).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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At the moment of collision, according to videos verified by Reuters, two people who appeared to have been on the topmost rung of the mast could be seen swinging forward violently.—
Joseph Goldstein,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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“Upper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upper. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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