vertiginous
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Paired side-by-side in the “Neapolitan” dance in the ballroom episode, they vied in friendly competition for the most vertiginous turns and the most airborne jumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
By the time hostilities commenced in the Middle East it had halved, and Michael Saylor’s bitcoin vehicle suffered an even more vertiginous drop, from north of $450 last summer to a February trough of $106.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Arguably the most significant development in efforts to curb climate change -- the vertiginous cost reductions of solar and wind power, batteries and electric vehicles -- was seeded long before Paris.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Violeta Autumn’s vertiginous redwood-and-concrete house perched along a cliff in Sausalito — a site others deemed unbuildable — demonstrates how terrain could inspire formal innovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
He’d begun to bridge the vertiginous gap between what he told the world and the truth he knew deep inside.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Vocabulary lists containing vertiginous
The Milagro Beanfield War
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Orphan Train
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"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges
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