meteorically

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Recent Examples of meteorically Grid interconnection applications have also risen meteorically. Diganta Sengupta, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meteorically
Adverb
  • Water levels of small streams may also rise rapidly.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Last month, rapidly-growing 7 Brew Coffee opened its 500th location, adding a stand in New Jersey.
    John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • During the event, several confrontations broke out, but were quickly calmed by police, who had formed a perimeter around Zellerbach Hall.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The few who have flirted with defying the president have quickly seen their reelection fortunes falter.
    Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Several of the production facilities that CNN analyzed have swiftly replaced villages and farmland, growing by tens of thousands of square feet in the past five years.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Even 6 inches of swiftly moving water can forcefully knock you off your feet.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • This electric kettle from Walmart will speedily heat up water for tea lovers or pour-over coffee connoisseurs.
    Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Worden tells me in an interview that Harvard scholar Robin Wordsworth, his co-author on a recent Red Planet study and one of the top American experts on terraforming Mars, is now designing compact astronaut outposts that can be positioned inside lava tubes and speedily inhabited.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The head coach wasn’t there either, as Brian Kelly had briskly walked from the postgame handshake at midfield to the end zone tunnel, receiving boos from the few LSU remaining fans.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Add ice and stir briskly for 10 seconds (if using small ice) to 25 seconds (if using big ice).
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • When the rat bites through one worker’s glove, the spread of the virus begins apace, transmitted via saliva.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Still, as school shootings continue apace, many districts don’t have the option to focus only on gun violence prevention.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • That trip was referenced in the whistle-blower complaint that sparked the House’s swift-moving impeachment inquiry.
    Jennifer Jacobs, Time, 17 Oct. 2019
  • As of Monday, Golden Police Chief Bill Kilpatrick and Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Schrader are restricting water activities on Clear Creek because of swift-moving water and floating debris.
    Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 1 July 2019

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“Meteorically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meteorically. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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