RAMPED (UP) Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

ramped (up)

verb

past tense of ramp (up)

as in jacked (up)

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Since the Current traded away Ally Sentnor to Angel City, Hopkins stepped up and provided what the Current needed at striker, perhaps as a better stylistic fit than Sentnor.

— Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
Gilgeous-Alexander and McCain stepped up when San Antonio pulled close, combining for 25 points in the second half.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of stepped up

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Meanwhile, airborne early-warning aircraft often use large radar arrays mounted above the fuselage to provide surveillance over a broad area.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Concerns mounted in July, when OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached a company called Hugging Face.

— Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of mounted

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As expected, Miami elevated kicker Zane Gonzalez from the practice squad.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
Wembanyama made a three-point play inside, Julian Champagnie hit a corner 3, and Wembanyama elevated to convert a pass from Stephon Castle into dunk while getting fouled.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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Visions, enhanced with shadows and emotion, came to life on marble through sketching the stone and chiseling and carving entirely by hand.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
Each picture mode offers essentially the same rich set of options, except for AI-enhanced, which locks you out of some settings (including local contrast and color tuner), presumably because the AI logic is handling those.

— M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026

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But the lead quickly expanded in the second half, thanks to a 15-0 run by Charlotte, which lasted nearly three minutes and was capped off by Allen’s three-pointer.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026
Development began in the 1970s, and the system became operational for military use before civilian access expanded.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of expanded

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The Modern Master Award was established in 1995 to celebrate an individual who enriched culture through their work in film.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
This has enriched its atmosphere with calcium, lithium, and sodium, and the team's model suggests this would have led WD J1330+6435 to adopt a green hue.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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