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On the one hand, the fact that inflation is still running at more than twice the target level, and core inflation — which includes goods and services, excluding volatile food and energy — saw an uptick to 5.6% in March, highlights that the Fed still has more to do and may need to lift short-term rates again at its early May meeting, on the other hand, overall inflation slowed more notably, and even core inflation on a month-to-month basis eased somewhat, a sign that the Fed’s tightening is having the desired effect.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are particularly concerned because we have seen an uptick in serious close calls.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be one thing if we found a certain piece of technology in the cockpit or a certain control tower where there were a lot of issues, but instead what we’re finding is that pilots, ground crews and controllers alike seem to be experiencing this uptick. Some have described it as a kind of rust.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Probably the second week in January… we started to get an uptick in requests.

Graeham Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s no doubt in my mind that 2023… is probably going to be the most catastrophic when it comes to the uptick of DVE (Domestic Violent Extremist) attacks on electricity infrastructure, a number of individuals and extremist groups online right now have already signaled that this is a part of their playbook.

Brian Harrell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lately, we’ve been seeing a purity increase over the last year, where we used to say roughly four out of the 10 seizures that we were receiving would contain a lethal dose of greater than 2 milligrams. As of October last year, we started reporting that we’ve seen an uptick. Now we’re saying that six out of 10 of the seizures that we’re receiving contain over 2 milligrams.

Scott Oulton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There has been an uptick in organizing. But that’s not enough to explain a lot of the change, a lot of the increase was the return of jobs lost in the pandemic in key unionized industries.

Alexander Colvin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s been an uptick in [LinkedIn use] since the pandemic, you had to do social distancing and we were quarantining and people were working remotely so there was a shift in real-life networking possibilities.

Jennifer Grygiel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Crime and chaos take over, and the economy, so now you're having a nationwide uptick in crime.

Hank Sheinkopf

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So now you're having a nationwide uptick in crime.

Hank Sheinkopf

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Go anywhere across India, traders are confidently saying and discussing that market crash has started in Oct 2021 so it will continue till Oct 2022 at least to complete 1year full and may be till December 2022. In between some small uptick will come for 2-3 days but will soon fizzle down.

Lakshheish M Patel

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1 year ago

What I think America needs right now [ is ] this uptick in highly creative content, with that event they said I'm not just going to do this from my d -- n living room. I want to take people to the most beautiful place that I have access to by car. And I'm going to create the most beautiful scenery I possibly can.

Walter Kinzie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it's important for us to realize that in some ways, we are already in the midst of a surge, there are indicators that the amount of transmission happening in this country right now, while not the same as it was this past winter, is at the levels that we were seeing during the Delta wave... But what we're not seeing are the same rise in hospitalizations and deaths -- so, we're seeing a small uptick but not the same tremendous rise that we've seen with some of these previous waves.

David Dowdy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those conditions are also present in the United States, so, I would not be surprised if we see an uptick in cases. Whether that uptick becomes a surge where there are a lot more cases is difficult to predict.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we should expect, David, that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases -- and hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we should expect... that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases. And hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't want to use the word ‘lockdowns. That has a charged element to it. But, I believe that we must keep our eye on the pattern of what we're seeing with infections, having said that, we need to be prepared for the possibility that we would have another variant that would come along. And then, if things change and we do get a variant that does give us an uptick in cases and hospitalization, we should be prepared and flexible enough to pivot toward going back – at least temporarily – to a more rigid type of restrictions, such as requiring masks indoors.

Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would not be surprised at all, if we do see somewhat of an uptick, i don't really see, unless something changes dramatically, that there would be a major surge.

Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We generally follow what goes on in the UK by about two to three weeks. So we've been paying close attention to what's going on there, what they're seeing is an uptick in cases that are related both to the increased transmissibility of the virus, the waning of immunity, but also the fact that they're opening up the way we are here and the way other countries in Europe and other parts of the world we're pulling back on mask mandates and things like that.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While most of the surface-based risk should remain over the northern Gulf, an uptick in tornado potential very late in the period warrants an inclusion of 5 % tornado probability.

Storm Prediction Center

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We see threats pop up periodically, those specifically associated to this heightened sense we've seen an uptick, but we're not aware of any campaign that's explicitly targeting the city itself, we deter a significant number of threats per day … But as it stands right now, there's no compromise, or there haven't been any compromises worth noting.

Matthew Fraser

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've become inundated with all these orders from retailers we may never even have heard of, we were stuck. We couldn't expand our infrastructure to accommodate the uptick in orders.

Chris Kubas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What you're seeing in the last few days is... a major uptick, a major escalation, particularly when you're seeing shells landing on civilian buildings.

Clarissa Ward

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ever since arriving in Washington, Val Demings has made it harder for police to do their jobs while enabling violent criminals, today’s demonstration is solely motivated by her run for Senate, and is too little, too late for the many Americans affected by the uptick in violent crime. This is political opportunism at its worst.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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