skyrocketed; skyrocketing; skyrockets
: to shoot up abruptly
prices are skyrocketing
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Verb
His popularity skyrocketed after his latest movie.
the crisis has caused oil prices to skyrocket
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The actual phrase vagueposting has been around since 2011, but internet users’ usage of it has recently skyrocketed.
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The population particularly skyrocketed after thousands of Venezuelan migrants arrived in the city during President Joe Biden’s administration, most of them bused to the city in 2022.
—Laura Turbay, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Farmers were up to the task, because the value of their land was skyrocketing, and many bankers encouraged them to take on large amounts of debt to increase the size of their operations (a move that would come back to haunt them during the farm crisis of the 1980s).
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
The actual phrase vagueposting has been around since 2011, but internet users’ usage of it has recently skyrocketed.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2026
The population particularly skyrocketed after thousands of Venezuelan migrants arrived in the city during President Joe Biden’s administration, most of them bused to the city in 2022.
—Laura Turbay, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
But Bloom has skyrocketed roughly 400% over the past year, ignited by its emergence as a standalone, onsite power supplier for electricity-guzzling AI data centers.
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
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“Skyrocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyrocket. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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skyrocket
1 of 2 noun
sky·rock·et
ˈskī-ˌräk-ət 
skyrocket
2 of 2 verb1
: to shoot up suddenly
costs have skyrocketed
2
: to cause to rise or increase rapidly
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