In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
UPSWING
Etymology
Noun
upswing (plural upswings)
an upward swing
(by extension) an upward trend or an increase in activity
Antonyms
• downswing
Verb
upswing (third-person singular simple present upswings, present participle upswinging, simple past and past participle upswung)
To swing upward.
Anagrams
• upwings
Source: Wiktionary
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24 May 2025
EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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