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How to pronounce “upstream”
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Pronunciation guide for upstream
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of upstream with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- What makes us get sick? Look upstream
and it's an approach that I call an upstream approach.
- Definition summary
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce upstream
What makes us get sick? Look upstream

and it's an approach that I call an upstream approach.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “upstream”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- (figurative) Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- [Adverb]
- Against the current.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To stream upward.
- (transitive, open-source software) To have (a software library, patch, etc.) accepted by the original developers of the related software, so that they maintain and distribute it.
- [Noun]
- Part of the river towards the upstream direction.
- (open-source software) The original developers or maintainers of software.
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