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US
/ˈəpˌsɝdʒ/
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[ UK /ˈʌpsɜːdʒ/ ]
[ UK /ˈʌpsɜːdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a sudden forceful flow
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a sudden or abrupt strong increase
an upsurge in violent crime
stimulated a surge of speculation
an upsurge of emotion
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