look up
Example Sentences
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IPO market, dormant for years, finally started to look up for tech companies last year.
One cannot simply look up a price quote for an idiosyncratic loan for which there is no secondary market.
From MarketWatch
Mustaine looks up and smiles, then concludes, “You know, man, I was No. 2 so long, I forgot there was a No. 1.”
From Los Angeles Times
"Honestly, I didn't have many people to look up to," she explained.
From Barron's
Earlier this month, Punch's situation began looking up when zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo, near Tokyo, posted that he was gradually integrating with a troop of monkeys -- "playfully poking others and getting scolded".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
