updraught

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Crypto-related stocks also benefited from the updraught.

From Barron's

The Tropics dominate world weather by producing a strong updraught of warm moist air which cascades out towards the poles.

From BBC

The area generating the updraught has been expanding since 1979 by 0.5 degrees- 1 degrees latitude per decade.

From BBC

I lay on my chest under the pilot's seat, and pushed to the right a little wooden door, which slid away from a rectangular hole in the floor through which came a swift updraught of wind.

From Project Gutenberg

Under the equator, owing to the fact that the sun for a considerable belt of land and sea maintains the earth at a high temperature, there is a general updraught which began many million years ago, probably before the origin of life, in the age when our atmosphere assumed its present conditions.

From Project Gutenberg