Definitions
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- adjective Which
heightens the mood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the rise of something
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Examples
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Mr. Treasure used recorded chirps from Europe, blended with water sounds and what he calls "uplifting musical figures."
A California City Is Into Tweeting—Chirping, Actually—in a Big Way John Letzing 2012
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A lot of things get said, promised, discussed and mentioned in uplifting speeches.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Clusterf**K Continues 2010
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While documenting the downturn in the music industry to a certain extent, it is uplifting from a creative perspective.
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This group of crazies is more interested inn crearing a fascist state than in uplifting the United States.
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Only weak or Jew-blood-diluted non-Aryans have any serious interest in uplifting all levels of society, in order to prevent an unbalanced system from tearing itself apart.
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They are on a level with the divine teachers, of the teachers of art capable of high composition, because they are engaged in uplifting the human race.
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Many show moobies hoisted amid an inventive range of brassieres, basques and baubles which give new meaning to the phrase uplifting images.
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Dave, it would be good to quickly post something basic to that wiki about what uplifting is (i.e. on the “what is uplifting” page, which is currently functionally blank.
Uplifter Charleston 2006
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We have rejected the idea of uplifting self-help-style bombast of the likes of What Have You Done Today to Make Yourself Proud? in favour of something more literal in the mode of Keep on Running, Gold or Jump.
Ijaz Butt's blurtings reveal the beauty of having an inner bookie 2010
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Recalling the uplifting feeling we gain from whatever moves us, we can harness that feeling for constructive purposes.
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