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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
upshift .
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Examples
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I used the paddles on the steering wheel and upshifted, letting the car have its way, coaxing it to higher and higher speeds.
Redline Deadline Charlie Cole 2011
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It was cloudy, but still muggy, and the sweat drenched her bike shorts and T-shirt as she upshifted into high gear and began to do some serious cranking on the pedals.
State Of War Clancy, Tom 2003
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She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.
The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.
The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.
The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002
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She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.
The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001
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** Chapter Twenty-eight A motorcycle engine revved and upshifted somewhere in the adjacent canyons.
Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998
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** Chapter Twenty-eight A motorcycle engine revved and upshifted somewhere in the adjacent canyons.
Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998
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Or, to change the metaphor, she upshifted into a gear she only runs in when in a state of complete delight.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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