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Discover LudwigThe phrase "escalate upwards" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to increase or intensify in a vertical direction. Example: As the hiker continued to climb the mountain, the difficulty of the terrain escalated upwards, making the ascent even more challenging.
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Contribution rates will escalate upwards over the coming years, but the reality is this regime will, for most people, provide just a small top-up to the state pension.
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The definition for intensification was modified for glargine as glargine dose is escalated upwards before adding any new medication.
The escalating levels of poverty also rob our economy of upwards of $500 billion a year in increased health care costs and lower worker productivity.
Perhaps too many of his numbers rely for their comic effect on an escalating pitch of dismay: we get used to hearing his voice squeak upwards as he rails against this or that incursion against common sense.
If other volcanic systems are similarly sensitive then we could be faced with an escalating burst of volcanic activity as anthropogenic climate change drives sea levels ever upwards.
The Falun Gong community quickly mobilized a response, and on the morning of 25 April, upwards of 10,000 practitioners gathered near the central appeals office to demand an end to the escalating harassment against the movement, and request the release of the Tianjin practitioners.
Still, onwards and upwards.
Onwards and upwards, chaps.
The effect spills upwards.
The price? £950 upwards.
Smoke drifts upwards".
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