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View definitions for move up

move up

noun as in raise

verb as in ascend

verb as in upgrade

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The income brackets that determine how much Americans pay in taxes each year are moving up for 2026, with a bigger bump for the lowest brackets because of this year’s new tax law.

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Gold-mining stocks tend to move up and down with the price of gold, but their movements have historically been more extreme.

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Promoters like low-price, thinly traded stocks because they are easier to hype and move up in price before the eventual dump.

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When she finally was moved up, the lawsuit said, rumors began circulating within the department that she’d been promoted because she brought her baby to a department workshop to “evoke sympathy.”

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There are even tales of villagers calling on priests to talk to the spirits of glaciers and get them to move up the mountain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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