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He said the company had ramped up its direct-to-consumer and off-premises offerings and created a line of chocolates made to look like the tops of their cupcakes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle said the UK government had "ramped up" its work with French authorities, revealing French police had stopped 28,000 small boat crossings last year.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025

In Ukrainian regions under Russian control, air defence units had been set up to defend key installations, Demin said, while Russia had ramped up production of the RLK-MC anti-drone system.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2023

"The biggest problem was getting people out of the hospital until other companies had ramped up," said Dr. David Seres, a professor of medicine at the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2023

For countless generations civilization had ramped about the globe; it had dispatched its emissaries to the North Pole and the South; it had circled Pal-ul-don once, perhaps many times, but it had never touched her.

From Tarzan the Terrible by Burroughs, Edgar Rice