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soar

[sawr, sohr] / sɔr, soʊr /


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Businesses across the West of England say they are struggling to make a profit as petrol prices soar to nearly £2 per litre.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Stories abound of local townspeople seeing energy bills soar when they are asked to foot the bill for the infrastructure needed to power new data centres, or finding their already stretched water supplies further diminished.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Since the start of the war, certain Iranian products have become scarcer, and others have seen their prices soar, says Morteza Asaadi, who runs the grocery store his father founded in 1963.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Plus, borrowing costs soar to their highest levels in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The wind blows off all my old, scorched feathers, and my new wings let me soar.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Plus, Coach owner Tapestry tumbles and Workday soars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As Amazon soars, nowhere is Bezos’ astronomical wealth more tangibly displayed than in his $500 million real estate empire.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

D-Wave Quantum posts lower-than-expected revenue in its latest quarter, even as the number of revenue-generating customer orders soars.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Off the entry and through an archway, the architectural heart of the century-old home soars upward: the living room’s open-beam, 25-foot ceiling with its original deep teal stain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He dribbles four times and then takes off at the foul line, spreads his legs, and soars.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

He found junior receiver KJ Woodbury in the end zone with a 37-yard floater that soared over the defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

That is the highest since mid-2022, when prices soared amid the supply-chain disruptions resulting from the Covid pandemic that led to insufficient inventory, labor shortages and bottlenecks at ports and railroads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

On Monday and Tuesday, bond yields fell a little as oil prices retreated; on Wednesday yields soared and oil rose; and on Thursday both rose again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Barre is a low impact exercise and its popularity has soared in recent years as famous names including Pippa Middleton have praised its benefits.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

She soared off the station and plummeted down, down, down toward the ocean.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Both the Swiss government and parliament have rejected the proposal, arguing it is too dogmatic and would limit the country's room for manoeuvre at a time of soaring geopolitical tensions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

But wedding culture is evolving alongside the soaring cost of buying a home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

He also presented Xi with a sculpture of a bald eagle, America's national symbol, saying it embodied "the free and soaring spirit of America".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Truth Social post purports to show the US president saluting beside his Chinese counterpart, with Xi's Air China aircraft forming the backdrop and a military jet soaring overhead.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

The razor-sharp mast of the Hands barely missed slicing the sole of my foot open, and then we were clear, soaring into the night.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia




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