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Gilbert said the injury continues to linger, and the Mets plan to be cautious with his ramp-up this spring. Tim Britton, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025 The time for talk eventually will end, and the race presumably will be scheduled during Lyles’ ramp-up to the USA outdoor track and field championships July 31. Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025 In the months before the disaster, the ramp-up to the elections was marked by increasingly anti-Syrian vitriol from the opposition, including third-party candidates’ campaigning almost exclusively on an anti-Syrian platform. Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025 Bell's revenues increased by 14% to $3.6 billion, largely due to the ramp-up of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program. Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ramp-up

Word History

Etymology

derivative of the phrasal verb ramp up — more at ramp entry 2

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ramp-up was in 1980

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“Ramp-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ramp-up. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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