Synonym: rush, spate, surge. Similar words: surge, surgeon, surgery, resurge, insurgent, resurgent, insurgence, insurgency. Meaning: n. 1. a sudden forceful flow 2. a sudden or abrupt strong increase.
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1. There was an upsurge in violence during June and July.
2. There was a genuine upsurge of religious feeling.
3. Saudi bankers say there's been an upsurge of business confidence since the end of the war.
4. An upsurge of/in violence in the district has been linked to increased unemployment.
5. There has been a recent upsurge of violence in the area.
6. The forecast upsurge in takings did not happen.
7. The recent upsurge in poaching has been dramatic.
8. She felt an unexpected upsurge of jealousy.
9. His government blames the upsurge of violence on the record inflow of immigrants this year.
10. The worst drought in 30 years and an upsurge in fighting has created huge armies of refugees.
11. Even more striking was the upsurge in heavy industry, and for this the State itself was primarily responsible.
12. They reacted, in particular, to the upsurge in proletarian and, from the turn of the century, peasant unrest.
13. The upsurge in our activity and in our public demands in the mid-1980s represented a declaration that our tolerance was running out.
14. There has been a tremendous upsurge in rural crime during the past 10 years.
15. By 1815, a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt.
16. It marked an upsurge in the family fortunes in every way.
17. In the insurance market, there has been an upsurge in activity.
18. From the 1880s the State itself sponsored an upsurge in heavy industry.
19. In recent years, there has been an upsurge in terrorist activity.
20. A great upsurge of popular discontent and nationalism led to the formation of a government headed by Mohammad Mussadeq.
21. What we're experiencing now is a huge upsurge in demand for everything we do.
22. A new upsurge in construction is in the making.
23. The latest incidents come just hours after yesterday's fatal accident inquiry into the upsurge of drug deaths in the city.
24. What did finesse have to do with that wild upsurge of feeling which had almost overwhelmed her?
25. It was also this same period - primarily the 1960s - that witnessed the academic upsurge in the human capital theory.
26. Prices rose in April 1990, but fell again in May to ￡1,573 after an upsurge in warehouse copper stocks.
27. Arbroath abbey was to provide the setting for another nationalistic upsurge in our own century.
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28. Such studies were hardly a basis for advocating that tax cuts would lead to an upsurge in work effort!
29. The final twist to the whole presentation graphics story must be the current upsurge in interest in Desktop Video.
30. Now those hopes are fading in the midst of a worrying upsurge in violence.
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