uptick

Never seen or even heard it used.

I have noticed this as well

Apparently As nouns the difference between increase and uptick is that increase is an amount by which a quantity is increased while uptick is a small change upwards or increase in something that has been steady or declining.

Gobbledegook !

I hate this word. Even heard it used by a journalist in another country, whose native language is not English.

Never heard this word!

It is an on trend word. There are a few at the mo!

Yup! I've seen it used more and more frequently. What's wrong with "increase"?

And will we soon be subjected to "downtick" instead of "decrease"?

To me, it seems that it describes rather well what a graph would look like if it did what Oopsminty says.

I've never heard it though.

Much loved in the Downing Street Covid-19 press conferences. Probably American.

Uptick is up there with Pushback.