upgrade
noun
an incline going up in the direction of movement.
was upgrading
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past progressiveof upgrade.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Fitch Ratings said it was upgrading its rating on Argentina following the October elections that saw President Javier Milei emerge with a stronger popular mandate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Alphabet launched its Gemini 3 model on Nov. 18, and OpenAI announced that it was upgrading the GPT-5 model to GPT- 5.1 External link on Nov. 12.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
“Because of that, I didn’t realize I was upgrading a B-movie to A.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
Bowen snagged a commercial refrigerator from a brewery that was upgrading, and most of the decor came from, appropriately, garage sales.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
BellSouth was headquartered in Atlanta, ambitious metropolis of the new high-tech Sunbelt; and BellSouth was upgrading its network by leaps and bounds, digitizing the works left right and center.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
