spike
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Downdetector Russia, a website that monitors internet outages, showed a large spike in user complaints beginning in the early hours of Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The UK's data watchdog is investigating a spike in complaints about "robo calls" - where a recorded voice asks you to add them on WhatsApp - that are suspected to lead to a recruitment scam.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Such truckers work load to load and often can’t raise rates when fuel prices spike, the way their larger competitors can.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Prior to this latest episode, investors hadn’t seen such a large spike in the number of negative beta stocks since shortly after the dot-com bubble peaked.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
There’s a little bird cutout on the front that says Sparrow on it, and a yellow cutout in the shape of a spike that says Spike on it in black marker.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
The fires have created severe haze locally, with tens of thousands of cases of respiratory illnesses, and also caused regional air pollution spikes in Singapore and Malaysia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The recent sudden spikes in fuel prices are making it trickier.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
And yet, despite a crisis of power outages, severe fuel shortages and dramatic price spikes, life in Cuba goes on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
That forces physical buyers of crude and oil products, such as airlines or refiners, to buy financial derivatives that hedge against price spikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
And the shoes on its front look more like loafers than track spikes, but it still means the same thing: first place.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Warnings among women about staying vigilant lest a drink get spiked and keeping friends in sight are de rigueur on most campuses and show up regularly in a variety of movies and TV shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Then, in an 0-and-2 count to Ozzie Albies, Glasnow spiked a curveball in front of the plate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
That means it spiked up at least 3.00 points over a three-day or shorter time period, using closing prices.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
All over the world corporations began to yank their money out of money market funds, and short-term interest rates spiked as they had never before spiked.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
A growing parade of companies—from Anthropic to Dunkin’ owner Inspire Brands—have revisited their listing plans as spiking bond yields, volatile oil prices and an intensifying debate around AI safety dent investor enthusiasm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
And they forecast that this year’s event could be the strongest on record, spiking sea temperatures far above normal.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
That’s just one of countless reasons why energy prices are predicted to keep spiking.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
We haven’t seen a “spike peak” buy signal since early last June — an extraordinarily long time for VIX to go without spiking upward on some negative news or rumor of some sort.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
I’m spiking a fever trying to tell if he likes it or not.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
