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go up

verb

  1. also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a higher place or level; rise; increase

    prices are always going up

    the curtain goes up at eight o'clock

    new buildings are going up all around us

  2. to be destroyed

    the house went up in flames

  3. to go or return (to college or university) at the beginning of a term or academic year
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Nichols' text came in around 4:30 p.m. local time while Moakley was on his regular bike ride home and, with the help of AI, the site went up an hour later.

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And then you went up to the cloud forest?

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“I went up to coach Kelly and I said, ‘You might want to consider this kid Carson Schwesinger as a walk-on — he’s a poor man’s Ethan Calvert,’” Charles Collins told The Times last fall.

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"This is different because it's flat... when you're going up a hill you get to walk, so this is a lot more daunting."

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would happen if vaccination rates went up by a little bit, or fell by a whole lot?

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