as in soars
to rise abruptly and rapidly
the crisis has caused oil prices to skyrocket
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Recent Examples of skyrockets
With Mars, your ancient ruler, also here, your magnetism skyrockets.
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
Lynch maintained that Shake Shack has pricing power if inflation skyrockets.
—Julie Coleman, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyrockets
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The radiant will rest low on the northern horizon after sunset, but soars high overhead during the pre-dawn peak-viewing hours.—
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Deep in the Carrizo Gorge and high above the desert floor soars the Goat Canyon train trestle — the world’s largest such bridge made entirely of wood, the better to withstand the harsh conditions of the Jacumba Mountains.—
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But there are several notable categories where the quality increases with cost, and one of those is noise-canceling headphones.—
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Pushing frozen branches upright quickly increases the chances of breakage.—
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“Skyrockets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyrockets. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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