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[sawr, sohr] / sɔr, soʊr /


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This year Nintendo raised the price of Switch 2, as the global artificial intelligence boom causes the price of memory chips used in everyday electronics to soar.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Also read: Lilly raised sales guidance for third time this year as Zepbound sales soar.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

He was serious, stern, smart, curious, with the hint of whimsy that it takes to soar among the stars with theoretical science and a diplomatic flair with alien races.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

JetBlue faced challenges even before the start of the Iran war earlier this year caused fuel prices to soar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

And in her soul, the madwoman felt a thousand birds—birds of paper, birds of feathers, birds of hearts and minds and flesh—leap into the sky and soar over the dreaming trees.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Bending Spoons stock soars as Berkshire Hathaway invests another $330 million in the digital media company.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Rival Asian firms in Japan, China and Taiwan are also investing heavily in chip plants as demand for AI soars.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Sometimes it soars up to the clouds as if escaping Nickerson Gardens for a breath of air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Six months into the war, the oil squeeze is depriving Tehran of its main source of foreign currency as the value of the Iranian rial plunges, inflation soars and the economy slides deeper into crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Unable to feed its people, unemployment soars to more than 50 percent.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Rental prices in the capital have soared in recent years.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Its filing also revealed that revenue soared to $17 billion in the third quarter, up from just $1.4 billion a year earlier.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Nvidia’s idiosyncrasies received little investor attention as the chip maker’s stock soared over the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

The SOX index tumbled 12.2% in one day last week, then soared 11.3% over the next two days.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

There were a total of eight seats, and she took one in the back row, staring out the window as the plane took off and soared into the moonless night.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

The S&P 500 earnings-season screen could be a useful tool to research individual stocks if you want to incorporate indicators of quality for an initial list of companies with soaring revenue.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

They have lost around 20 percent this month as traders bet on a resolution to the seven-month-old conflict, which has sent inflation soaring and forced central banks to hike interest rates.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

The charitable fund has seen its assets surge in recent years, driven by the soaring value of Nvidia shares, and is estimated to be worth more than $9bn.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

We knew that prices were going up because of soaring memory costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

She’s the one who even noticed that huge bird soaring over us.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila


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