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upsurge

[uhp-surj, uhp-surj] / ʌpˈsɜrdʒ, ˈʌpˌsɜrdʒ /


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Fractile joins hardware startups that have been racing to bring products to market and strike deals with major customers as agentic AI provokes an upsurge in computing demand.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Investors have been fleeing the AI trade—not withstanding a dramatic upsurge today—with one exception: data center real estate investment trusts.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

But it is cultural figures like Aamron – and Honoré Sitsopé Sokpor, a poet known by his alias "Affectio" and jailed in January – who have inspired this latest upsurge in protests.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Some observers have predicted an upsurge in migration in the coming months.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

Sergei Diaghilev, art, dance and music lover, saw in this upsurge of Russian cultural pride an opportunity.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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