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- n a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction
- Despite a recent small uptick in violent crime, most Americans are still by and large safer than they were in the crack-fueled early 1990s.
- Counselors at Stanford University have observed an uptick in women who had "regretted sex" while drunk.
- And with the public so soured on the Republican in the White House, and so many other trends working against them, including an uptick in the percentage of Americans identifying .