upsurge

[ US /ˈəpˌsɝdʒ/ ]
[ UK /ˈʌpsɜːd‍ʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sudden forceful flow
  2. a sudden or abrupt strong increase
    an upsurge in violent crime
    stimulated a surge of speculation
    an upsurge of emotion
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How To Use upsurge In A Sentence

  • The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
  • The attack came amid a major upsurge in violence across the country that has left a thousand dead.
  • But the stories of this remnant student activism almost inevitably leave out an enormous upsurge in pro-Israel activities on these same campuses.
  • Nevertheless, it has helped add a bit more spice to the recent upsurge of rank and file militancy which has managed to send the mainstream press into such a lather.
  • It is those senses of the situation which a certain Russian forecaster's reliance on adducing patterns among images depends, as a key to a shift in such effects as mass-psychology of the eerie qualities which Shelley attributes to the optimistic upsurge he references in his LaRouche's Latest
  • References to the recent upsurge of doping scandals in sprinting do not faze him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rural areas are also reporting a boom in sales figures largely due to an upsurge in tourism because of the good summer.
  • Decades later, these riots generally came to be seen as understandable upsurges against suffering.
  • The country has seen a recent upsurge in protests. Times, Sunday Times
  • an upsurge in violent crime
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