Example Sentences

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The upwardly revised fourth-quarter data showed strength in the corporate sector.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

February’s sales, at a seasonally adjusted 4.09 million pace, increased from the prior month’s upwardly revised reading of 4.02 million.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

Taking it would be the greatest validation yet of an upwardly mobile team.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

“But I still do think of this card as being worthwhile for the upwardly mobile, young professional renter. It actually is one of the most lucrative transferable-points cards on the market.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

Her mother, Ann, was a Powell, another educated, upwardly mobile colored family—and the same Powells who would two generations later produce Colin Powell.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell