meteoric
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Chip stocks have driven meteoric gains over the past two months but the landscape is changing, putting the most recent rally in peril.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
After a meteoric rise last week, shares of Poet Technologies plummeted almost as quickly on Monday after the company disclosed cancellations of several purchase orders.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026
There is also the meteoric rise of Raúl Castro’s grandnephew Oscar Pérez-Oliva.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Those traits, along with his standing as a protege of Marcelo Ebrard — Mexico’s secretary of the economy, who previously served as foreign minister — helped power Velasco’s meteoric career rise.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Malcolm’s meteoric eruption on the national scene brought him into wider contact with white men who were not the “devils” he had thought they were.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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