runup
Noun
Meaning
a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time
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a runup in interest rates
market runups are followed by corrections
When dissecting how experts missed seeing the results of the 2016 election coming, confirmation bias as a reason "why many election-watchers got it wrong: in the runup to the election, they saw only what they expected, or wanted, to see."
In the runup to the We’ll Meet Again speech, her finest hour according to Morton, courtiers knew it was a question of “when, not if” the Queen would address the nation.
Trump allies’ accusations of drug use and earpieces in the runup to Tuesday’s debate have proven to be part of a series of endless distractions — Biden won’t even debate!
When news broke about Facebook collaborating with data mining companies during the runup to the 2016 presidential election, it may have broken the damn.