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skyrocket

[skahy-rok-it] / ˈskaɪˌrɒk ɪt /


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David Fyfe, chief economist at Argus Media, notes that cutting off American supply would likely cause international prices to skyrocket.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

It started on a platform called Popshoplive to sell Hello Kitty and other items, but sales didn’t skyrocket until it switched to TikTok Shop in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Singapore’s rapid development following its separation from Malaysia in 1965 saw car ownership skyrocket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Wall Street expectations for an interest-rate hike at the Fed’s next big meeting in mid-September would skyrocket.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

On the top step he let out a shriek that one witness likened to the scream of a skyrocket.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

At the same time, and even more surprisingly, “Hamilton” enlists the musical language of hip-hop in the service of a patriotism that is at bottom as old-fashioned as skyrockets on the Fourth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Singapore's economy grew six percent year-on-year in the first quarter as demand skyrockets for artificial intelligence chips, balancing the fallout from the Middle East war, the government said Monday.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026

Directed by Jay Roach and written by Tony McNamara, Theo is an architect whose career collapses at the same time as his wife's career as an up-and-coming chef skyrockets.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

The same is true of Fourth of July equipment, flags and bunting and skyrockets.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

In the fields, the cost of diesel needed to run combines as farmers start harvesting soybeans, corn and other crops this month has skyrocketed more than 67 percent since February.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

But in the 15 years since, the price of one Bitcoin had skyrocketed as high as $126,000, in 2025, only to fall back down to about $76,000 at the time of the conference.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Founded in Massachusetts in the early 1900s, the popularity of Converse has skyrocketed since its Chuck Taylor sneaker was first introduced to US basketball courts in 1917.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

A decade later, during the pandemic, home prices skyrocketed, and in the years since, interest rates have risen as well.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

The price of living skyrocketed, and nobody was making any money.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

This confluence of factors coupled with rising wait times and skyrocketing costs of compute are crippling a generation of newcomers trying to compete with Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Taiwan's exports hit a record high of $87.2 billion in September, the government said Thursday, thanks to skyrocketing global demand for artificial intelligence hardware.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The paper's cartoon has also homed in on skyrocketing fuel costs, joking that staff at the pump "don't care what diesel cost when you started driving".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Some condominium HOAs have run into trouble recently, as MarketWatch has reported, in part due to skyrocketing insurance costs and dwindling financial reserves.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

My stomach a hard ball, my pulse skyrocketing again, I left his office without shaking his outstretched hand.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins




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