UPTURNED Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

upturned

verb

past tense of upturn

as in rose

to move or extend upward at this point the road upturns steeply, the trees become scarcer, and the valley unfolds before you

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The price swung between $72 and $102 last month as hopes rose and fell that the United States and Iran could reach an agreement that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Middle East again to deliver crude worldwide.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, the share of California public safety employees with at least 15 years of tenure dramatically rose from about 10% in 1996 to 47% in 2024.

— Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026

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Back on the job the morning after the alert was lifted, Isidro threw a rope over an avocado tree about 20 feet (6 meters) high and climbed up.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
The average freight rate climbed 9 percent percent year over year to $1,475 per 20-foot container (TEU).

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of climbed

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In Iran, the rate of inflation for food has soared by nearly 130% over the past 12 months, and people are having to buy food and medicine in installments, according to reports from Iranian media.

— Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Their odds of playing into October have soared from roughly 7 percent to better than 60 percent.

— Dennis Lin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of soared

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Tromso, the northernmost football club in the world to win a major national trophy, having lifted the Norwegian Cup in 1986 and 1996, are tricky opponents.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
WorldView-3 lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and has been orbiting Earth ever since.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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While no retrospective museum exhibit of his creations is in the making, some of Lewitin’s works were recently mounted in Jacaranda, a Los Angeles restaurant on Melrose Avenue.

— R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The engine, gearbox, wiring loom, and dash all come from a 2017 Honda CBR500 motorbike, with the two-cylinder inline engine mounted behind the single-seat cockpit and driving the rear wheels via a prop.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026

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