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soar

[sawr, sohr] / sɔr, soʊr /


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Reforms under Zhu sparked a boom in real estate and construction, which would soar to become a quarter of China's economy before a crippling debt crisis struck in 2020.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has seen his company's value soar amid the AI boom in tech.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Plus, manufacturing jobs remain a bright spot and Airbnb shares soar.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Deena wants to watch Maddie soar, to see her climb the echelons into food media superstardom.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

Aru tried not to let her eyebrows soar up her forehead.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

As Amazon soars, nowhere is Bezos’ astronomical wealth more tangibly displayed than in his $500 million real estate empire.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Off the entry and through an archway, the architectural heart of the century-old home soars upward: the living room’s open-beam, 25-foot ceiling with its original deep teal stain.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

There were some more positive voices, including Variety's Owen Gleiberman, external, who said it "escapes the remake blues - in fact it soars above them".

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Also, your heart rate spikes, your blood pressure soars, the blood vessels in your extremities constrict to keep warm blood near your core and you begin to gasp involuntarily.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

The glowing pile soars, exploding against the sky like fireworks and then re-forming into a woman with an elaborate headdress.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

The spike was driven not by Paxton’s acquisition of more assets but because the reported value on several of his properties soared.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

Adjusted for inflation, truckers aren’t yet filling up at 2022 levels, but that is small consolation: Diesel prices have soared 56% since the war began and $2.14 a gallon from a year ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

But it’s to the city’s west, where suburbs fuse into the coastal pines, that fire hazards have soared.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

The number of missing soared close to 3,000 Saturday, latest figures from both countries showed, with 633 bodies recovered -- and reports of some dead possibly swept downstream as far away as India.

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

My heart soared as I scrubbed the grime off my neck and face.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

It was the start of the second quarter on Friday night, when USC quarterback Jayden Maiava spotted his budding star freshman soaring on a slot post through the wide-open center of the field.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Motherhood has taken many of us to new emotional lands—sometimes soaring heights, but sometimes far down into dark depths.

From Slate Sep. 5, 2026

In Malaysia, soaring pollution levels prompted the government on Friday to declare an emergency in a region of the Sarawak state in Borneo, with nearly 650 schools closed next week.

From Barron's Sep. 5, 2026

The trend is being driven by the same shortage of memory chips, and accompanying soaring costs, stemming from the massive buildout of artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Daniel spreads his arms wide as he runs, like he might be a bird, a bird soaring in the sky, not a kid running across an open field.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers




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