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Taylor’s Boones Mill store—a former church—brought in upwards of $15,000 a day in 2024, the best sales pace in the business’s 11-year history, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
CoreWeave expects to end the year with upwards of 1.85 gigawatts of active power, up from a previous outlook of 1.7GW,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
In the 1990s, juries across the country would issue upwards of 300 death sentences in a year.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Volozh noted that the company “closed four landmark deals” within its artificial-intelligence cloud business during the quarter, and they had an average total contract value upwards of $1 billion each.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“That little fella’s not for sale. He’s a Manchurian Fire Thrower. They’re ones that shoot upwards of three hundred feet in the air and explode in two different colors.”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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