spike
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Especially hot or cold weather can spike bills, which are based on a mix of consumption and fixed costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Application fees will also rise 20-fold from Thursday and at one immigration office in central Tokyo visited by AFP this week hundreds of people queued, hoping to wrap up procedures before the price spike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
“A ringing phone now reads as an emergency, and most of us have been conditioned to meet surprise with a small spike of alarm.”
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
A stinger is a portable spike strip used to puncture the tyres of a vehicle.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
There was nothing to do with the spike of fear that shot through him but to speak out in anger.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Diesel spikes and the immediate strain on an organization’s near-term costs and cash flow has led businesses to look at the changes they can make to control those costs, she added.
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
Paired with dark sunglasses and Nike's latest carbon-plated spikes, it helped Hodgkinson achieve her first victory since the London Diamond League in July.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The hormone spikes came from the adrenal glands and were especially pronounced in patients whose primary aldosteronism was caused by a problem affecting only one adrenal gland rather than both.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
She spikes the ball and the girls collapse on the ground in laughter.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Exports spiked 25 percent year-on-year, the General Administration of Customs said, accelerating from July's 23.9 percent growth, though the increase was just short of the 25.9 percent forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
In Asian trading Monday, SK Hynix ordinary shares spiked 8% and Samsung Electronics more than 5%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
It was a bestseller when it first hit bookshop shelves nearly 10 years ago — and after Nolan mentioned Wilson’s work in an early interview promoting his big-screen adaption, its sales spiked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Bristle issued another threat yowl and spiked her fur, but Pax saw her eyes roll in terror.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
It has been desperate to avoid a ban, warning that it risked creating a cascade of unintended consequences that would throttle supplies of diesel and gasoline in the U.S. and lead to spiking prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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
Oil prices edged down but remain in danger of spiking further as investors await a breakthrough in efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Jam froze with her hands tangled in a towel, her heartbeat spiking to a blur.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
