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Recent Examples of surge
John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Renters surge as buyers hesitate While homeowners flatline, the renter population is surging.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Even after Monday's surge, Eightco maintains a market capitalization of less than $140 million, positioning it squarely in the microcap category.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Delays could cause disruption, leading prices to surge for memory chips, the semiconductors that help devices store data that Samsung and SK Hynix make in China.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Renters surge as buyers hesitate While homeowners flatline, the renter population is surging.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
But in coming fall months, that air is going to cool — potentially igniting a late surge of storms.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Even after Monday's surge, Eightco maintains a market capitalization of less than $140 million, positioning it squarely in the microcap category.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surge
Noun
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But the new wave of disavowals represents the latest sign that the conflict, which has killed thousands of Palestinians, has become polarizing within the mainstream of the party.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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In the Atlantic, a tropical wave is forecast to emerge off the west African coast in the next couple of days.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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By the time Journalism and jockey Umberto Rispoli began passing other horses and taking aim at Fierceness with the rally that had won him the Santa Anita Derby, Preakness and Haskell Stakes, the leader had spurted clear by 2-1/2 lengths turning into the homestretch.—
Kevin Modesti,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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The supporters’ handheld smoke bombs spurted plumes of royal blue, the apparatus and color foreign to the home stadium of the orange and black Giants.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
24 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Federal Supplement Security Income payments would increase for January but those payments would be made at the end of December.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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But there is really no reason why this should be the case for Pilates—which consists of different low-impact movements to strengthen your core muscles, increase your flexibility, improve your posture and give you more awareness of your body in general.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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But the swell of the score told us we were supposed to like that Andy left Paris.—
Megan Angelo,
Glamour,
11 Sep. 2025
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Kiko's swells should peak by Wednesday across the waters of the western islands, the hurricane center said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Trillions of ghostly particles called neutrinos stream through our bodies every second, slipping past atoms without a trace.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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Now is now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.—
Stacy Lambe,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Colorado River and the two reservoirs have been suffering because of a multidecade drought in the West intensified by climate change, rising demand and overuse.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Stellarium Venus Begins To Fade September sees Venus rise closer to sunrise.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While other massive stars in the region may not yet be gushing quite so violently, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile found another dense stellar core that could be in an earlier stage of construction, according to the researchers.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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With a few locations across the city, OZO cafés are the type of place where baristas regularly gush about how much their rotating single-origin espresso tastes of strawberries or papaya.—
Alex Mayyasi,
Saveur,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Despite maintaining solid on-time performance (consistently over 80 percent for all three years), customer complaints skyrocketed.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The Treasure Valley has been facing a housing shortage, with skyrocketing rents over the last few years and increasing homelessness.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Surge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surge. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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