skyrocket
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This total includes unpaid caregiving, but if a person needs care in a nursing home, the costs quickly skyrocket to more than $100,000 a year.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
That closure has impacted the world's supplies of oil and liquid natural gas, and caused energy prices to skyrocket.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
The Bears, with good reason, feared that their tax bill would skyrocket.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
"It's ridiculous, honestly. Seeing these gas prices skyrocket, it's incredible," he said at a gas station in New Jersey.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
“I didn’t expect fundamental deterioration in the underlying mortgage pools to hit critical levels for a couple years,” he said—when the teaser rates would vanish and monthly payments would skyrocket.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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