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This title triggers one of my biggest pet peeves. "Up" is not a verb. "Raise" or "increase" is the word the title needs, not "ups"
Dictionaries are books of history, not law. People are free to use English like the juicy slut she is and there is nothing you can do to stop us from upping the level of living language.
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In the context of "upping the ante", it's been used since at least 1870: https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/up-the-ante/
I'm guessing that people took the phrase "ante up" and switched it around.
EDIT: I did check the source out a bit and they seem to be legitimate, not just LLM slop. They could still be wrong, but they do at least cite sources.
I was trying to figure out what an Uninterrupted Power Supply Graphical Processing Unit was.