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look up
If a situation is looking up, it is improving.
phrasal verb: If you look someone up, you visit them after not having seen them for a long time.
phrasal verb: If you look up a fact or a piece of information, you find it out by looking in something such as a reference book or a list.

look up in American English
to direct the eyes upward; raise one's glance
to search for in a book of reference, etc.

look up in British English
to discover (something required to be known) by resorting to a work of reference, such as a dictionary

look-up in British English
adjective: of or relating to look-up
noun: the provision of stored data for reference

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