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By Saturday morning, crews had upped containment to 73%, compared to 37% Tuesday, thanks to the nearly 5,000-person crew’s backfiring operations and aerial attacks.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025

Fain said on Friday that Ford had upped its proposed wage hike to 23% through early 2028.

From Reuters • Oct. 12, 2023

He had already tried and failed treatment with those drugs at lower doses, and it was Loftus who had upped the doses, leading to his remission from severe colitis.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

By the end of Thursday, they had upped that number to 19, Tate-Techtmann said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

Inns on the route had upped their rates; ferrymen were charging extra to transport people and carriages across rivers.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy