trip up

Example Sentences

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Worries about Fed rate hikes and souring earnings expectations could easily trip up the market for a second straight month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

After routing their bitter rivals 4-1 in November, they made the short trip up the Seven Sisters Road to inflict another humiliating defeat that pushed Tottenham deeper into the relegation mire.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

"When you are on a wartime footing, there's a sense of urgency. The urgency of delivering the service becomes more important than rules that sometimes trip up bureaucracies," he says.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025

Any trip up into the foothills or canyons and I am immediately brought back to my childhood spent traipsing around the San Gabriel Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

And he’d earned this trip up the social ladder through his hard work at Vincent de Paul.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer