upward
Example Sentences
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If oil prices rise to around $100 a barrel, it would generate significant upward pressure on energy prices across the region and potentially change Asian central banks’ policy course, they added.
“While a sustained upward move in oil prices could potentially support more pricing across pockets of the commodity and intermediate chemicals complex,” there are mitigating factors, wrote Citi analyst Patrick Cunningham on Monday.
From Barron's
The path was really nothing more than a thin slice of trodden-down dirt between waist-high underbrush that sloped continually upward.
From Literature
An upward price spiral could weigh on currencies too.
Dubai's upward economic trajectory confirms the success of its diversification strategy in recent years, with over 95 percent of GDP coming from non-oil sectors.
From Barron's
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