skyrocketed

verb

past tense of skyrocket
as in soared
to rise abruptly and rapidly the crisis has caused oil prices to skyrocket

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Recent Examples of skyrocketed Lip liner sales grew 36 percent in the mass market and 34 percent in prestige, effectively playing the role today that lip treatments played from 2022 to 2024 when those skyrocketed in popularity post-Rhode. — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2026 In this edition of the AJC On Campus Roundup, the number of Georgians struggling to pay them back has skyrocketed. — Jason Armesto, AJC.com, 11 Aug. 2026 In 2021, there was one trauma patient who suffered an e-bike injury, but in 2025, that number skyrocketed to 201 children admitted with traumatic injuries at Rady Children's Hospital. — Michele Gile, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 Whatever the cause of the more recent wave, demand for luxury real estate has grown, and home values have skyrocketed since 2019. — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026 Ford’s labor turnover rate skyrocketed to a staggering 370% in 1913, forcing him to hire more than 50,000 workers just to maintain a baseline workforce of 14,000. — Jason Dressel, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026 The commingling of late night and overtly liberal politics has been a narrative for a decade now, ever since Colbert’s ratings skyrocketed (for engaging in them) and Jimmy Fallon’s tanked (for not) in the president’s first term. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2026 The platform, which operates out of Auckland, New Zealand, skyrocketed in popularity during the COVID pandemic. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026 While the foursome’s rise to fame skyrocketed after their roles in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Astin admitted to The Guardian last month that the back-to-back films didn’t necessarily help their wallets. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyrocketed
  1. soared
  2. increased
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  • In Iran, the rate of inflation for food has soared by nearly 130% over the past 12 months, and people are having to buy food and medicine in installments, according to reports from Iranian media.
    — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Their odds of playing into October have soared from roughly 7 percent to better than 60 percent.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of soared
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  • More drones and missiles are slipping through both sides’ fraying air defenses, meaning that the civilian death toll has increased, and more critical infrastructure is being damaged.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Connecticut’s homeless population increased for the fifth year in a row — though at a lower rate than the previous two years.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of increased

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