go up and down
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The cost of these services go up and down depending on whether stocks go up or down, hardly a sensible way to measure price changes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Then trucks would go up and down the rows picking up the tubs.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
“They were probably a small number of mines that you could deploy from small vessels of opportunity, so fishing boats, small cargo boats that go up and down the strait,” Clark said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Mascalusco used to have an active lifestyle, but the damage to her lungs made it so she could barely go up and down the stairs of her Utah home without feeling winded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Its gills go up and down, it shines wet under the sun, and it flaps and flaps and flaps in the dirt and mud.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
