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Example sentences for: upped

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Newsweek , perhaps foreseeing that Time would repeat this device from last year, upped the ante with a list of "100 Americans for the Next Century."
The tourism ante is being upped by hoteliers, entrepreneurs, and government officials eager to broaden Madeira’s offerings and appeal.
Curtis is ingenious in his slapstick farce and spoof mode, less assured when the emotional ante is upped.
So she upped her demand to $2 million?
Others say the novel rambles: "As with a bright child brought down to entertain the guests, you begin to wonder when it will be bath time" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). They also note the new novel's fortuitous publication date: The rumor that Monica Lewinsky bought Baker's 1992 phone-sex novel Vox for President Clinton has upped that book's sales 200 percent.