escalator
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"It's a good plan," Mark Deering, 33, said of the escalator project, after they all made it to the bottom.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Read: Stocks usually take the escalator up and the elevator down.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
The best explanation I got was: Imagine there’s an escalator that takes you up, but when you get to the top of the escalator you’re down.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
“I fell down an escalator when I was pregnant with him.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
They’d pause as if at the edge of deep water, and then start down the escalator, running, trying to match the apparent speed of the stairs.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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