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Usage examples of step up.

Inventing this form of agriculture, or husbandry, or industry, allowed for a tremendous population explosion, as the little red people had just taken a step up the food chain, by exploiting the level of life just below theirs.

Turka saw one whose face said he was a Lord, as plainly as if it had been embossed on his cap, step up and make ready to be the first through.

And our friend will not agree with me that we'll have to step up the strength of our output if we're ever going to punch through all that pressurized gunk out there.

With the threat gone, the reaction was uniform: we must step up the attack.

Carl Austin Weiss detach himself from the crowd, step up to the Senator, and push a .

Every moment of music making brings delight on its own, not just as a step up the mountain toward the highest peak.

The curve of the top of the thing was a little above my eye level, but there was a platform there for me to step up on.

The first step up from brutish manipulation of mechanical artifacts, the beginnings of control of chemical and biological processes.

In the meantime, here in Constantinople, we'll step up our efforts to turn his wife Antonina.

In fact, adolescent might be a better word than adult-it was at least a step up from childish.