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up-and-comingness

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  • Drive about 20 minutes east to Downtown L.A., a neighborhood that has been in a state of up-and-comingness for around a decade but is often ignored by visitors and Angelenos alike.

    Los Angeles 2012

  • It's up-and-comingness that has made the Kilo Hotel what it is.

    Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903

  • The girls cried out for joy, and the chef bore their mirth stoically, but not without a personal relish of the shoeman's up-and-comingness.

    Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

  • The girls cried out for joy, and the chef bore their mirth stoically, but not without a personal relish of the shoeman's up-and-comingness.

    Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

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