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  • noun Plural form of up-tick.

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Examples

  • Despite recent up-ticks in various world stock exchanges, the underlying economic/financial news remains no cause for celebrations.

    Hyping a potential pandemic seems to be 'just what the doctor ordered!' 2009

  • In the fall, we will no longer have the students whose scores we will analyze, but what else are you going to do with the data, besides publish it in the local papers and wonder why the mathematically challenged gloat with the up-ticks, and feel shamed by the downturns?

    "countless dollars and hours. . . for these pathetic tests" Jim Horn 2008

  • In the fall, we will no longer have the students whose scores we will analyze, but what else are you going to do with the data, besides publish it in the local papers and wonder why the mathematically challenged gloat with the up-ticks, and feel shamed by the downturns?

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • And he is enjoying the slightest of up-ticks in approval rating.

    CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2007 2007

  • QUESTION: Given your concerns about manual recounting, would you recommend the governor not in his totals accept the up-ticks in ballots that he's gotten from recounts that have been held in counties where Republicans have been overseeing the process?

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Spokespeople Call Florida Counties' Manual Counts `Fundamentally Flawed' - November 18, 2000 2000

  • The business is tend to spend particularly in online channels in advance of the major booking up-ticks that you see in the spring and in the summer, so that's really more seasonal than anything else.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • The business is tend to spend particularly in online channels in advance of the major booking up-ticks that you see in the spring and in the summer, so that's really more seasonal than anything else.

    Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • The business is tend to spend particularly in online channels in advance of the major booking up-ticks that you see in the spring and in the summer, so that's really more seasonal than anything else.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Manufacturing Sales (1. 6% vs. prior 0. 1%) and Consumer Pricing (0. 3% vs. prior - 0. 03%) saw up-ticks month-over-month and Core CPI jumped to

    FXstreet.com Union Bank of California 2010

  • Because of the operating margin shown in the 10-K exclude corporate allocations are refrained from quoting margin numbers and stick to the business up-ticks.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

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