Synonyms for upwards
up·wards

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1. up, upwards, upward, upwardlyadverb

   spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position

   "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"

   Synonyms:
   up, upwardly, upward

   Antonyms:
   down, downwardly, downwards, downward

2. up, upwards, upwardadverb

   to a later time

   "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"

   Synonyms:
   up, upwardly, upward

   Antonyms:
   downward, down, downwardly, downwards

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1. List of paraphrases for "upwards":

   upward, up

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1. Ernie Carswell:

   Emails, telephone calls — we may see upwards of 500 calls a day.

2. Mark Spellman:

   Raytheon Co -LRB- RYT.N -RRB- has been our number one holding in the defense sector, because they have more international sales, upwards of 40 percent of what they do now is non-US business. And that's the highest percentage of any defense contractor.

3. Susan Sarich:

   We increased hourly pay close to 20 % [ but ] the cost of living is off the charts, some are commuting upwards of an hour and a half each way and you add on gas prices and it's like, how does the math work ?

4. Bhartrihari:

   The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

5. Bob Dorfman:

   Yes, there's always going to be people who are detractors for what he did. That's more of an issue these days. But he's still a marketable commodity, i think they'll be much more visible with him now leading up the other majors. Everything points upwards for Nike and Tiger.