Sentence examples for going upstream from inspiring English sources

"going upstream" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English and can be used when someone is attempting to achieve something which is not considered conventional or accepted by the majority.
For example, "She chose to go upstream in her career by creating her own business rather than pursuing a corporate job."

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The downstream journey takes three nights and four days – it takes longer going upstream.

"There's never going to be a migration, like the salmon going upstream.

The New Yorker's Broadway roll call is enough to get the salmon going upstream in any theatre fan.

One oft-told story is that a trout going upstream swam into Junction Pool and tried growing two heads to swim up both rivers.

"We knew a lot of people would try to solve the problem by going upstream," said Kyle R. Chapman, MBA '19, and member of the winning team.

By going upstream to the source of the problem (where the ecocide occurs), it is much cheaper to prevent it the first place.

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I wanted to go upstream, get to the roots.

We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

But he added: "We have got to go upstream and find the people pushing them in and say stop it".

As we went upstream, we could see docks, freighters loading reels of cable, and sites of Revolutionary War shipyards.

"This is strictly financial — a way to go upstream from the trend".

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