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BNC: 12040 COCA: 20132

upsurge

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
upsurge /ˈʌpˌsɚʤ/ noun
plural upsurges
upsurge
/ˈʌpˌsɚʤ/
noun
plural upsurges
Learner's definition of UPSURGE
[count]
: a rapid or sudden increase or rise猛增;急剧上升;飙升usually + in or of
BNC: 12040 COCA: 20132

upsurge

noun

up·​surge ˈəp-ˌsərj How to pronounce upsurge (audio)
: a rapid or sudden rise
an upsurge in interest

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An upsurge in drug use sometimes leads to an upsurge in crime. An upsurge of flu cases can be cause for alarm. And an upsurge of fury at overpaid CEOs might lead to new legislation to restrain high salaries. We seem to use upsurge more in negative contexts than in positive ones, but not always; we usually welcome an upsurge of consumer confidence, an upsurge in new-car sales, or an upsurge in the stock market.

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The true crime genre has experienced an upsurge in the past decade. Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022 The Minnesota nurses' strike comes amid an upsurge in union activity nationwide. Fox News, 12 Sep. 2022 Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is in the midst of a new upsurge of union organizing. Peter Dreier, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022 The upsurge of interest is welcome news to Martin Ross, senior project engineer for civil and commercial launch projects at the Aerospace Corporation and a longtime advocate of clarifying rocketry’s climatic effects. Leonard David, Scientific American, 29 July 2022 That has aggravated the situation and comes at a time when South Africa is seeing an upsurge in xenophobic attacks sparked by locals blaming foreigners for crime in their areas. Mogomotsi Magome, ajc, 4 Aug. 2022 The production shut down in January after Daniels left the cast and an upsurge in Covid-19 variants hit New York City. Greg Garrison | Ggarrison@al.com, al, 31 July 2022 Mirziyoyev himself has criticised local MPs for not telling him about public opposition to it -- may have been a bid to pre-empt any upsurge in separatism against the background of the war in Ukraine. Reuters, CNN, 4 July 2022 Quevedo said the upsurge in shark sightings and activity in Long Island is a result of conservation efforts in the area including legislation prohibiting the overfishing of menhaden, or bunker fish. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of upsurge was in 1917
BNC: 12040 COCA: 20132
upsurge

noun

ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVEdramatic, great, huge, massive (especially BrE) 劇增sudden突然的上升recent最近的增長PREPOSITIONupsurge in⋯的激增an upsurge in violent crime暴力犯罪的激增

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