as in soaring
to rise abruptly and rapidly
the crisis has caused oil prices to skyrocket
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Recent Examples of skyrocketing
Taxpayers are footing the bill on the back end, through skyrocketing health care & Medicaid costs.
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Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
In January and February 2025, grocery shoppers were scrambling to find eggs on bare shelves and paying skyrocketing prices.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Any new taxes in northwest Indiana are not likely to be well-received by residents who are already protesting skyrocketing utility bills.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
There is a force skyrocketing to elite levels of golf, and his name is Chris Gotterup.
—Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
And as traders bought more, the gains gathered steam, resulting in skyrocketing prices.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
Faced with skyrocketing costs, some are delaying medical care or dropping their coverage.
—Meg Tanaka, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
The problem has been in the development of that platform, particularly the batteries, which have led to costs skyrocketing and Porsche getting cold feet.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2026
The average price of PepsiCo products climbed about 4% in the last two years after skyrocketing by double-digit percentages in 2022 and 2023.
—Dave Lozo, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
In January and February 2025, grocery shoppers were scrambling to find eggs on bare shelves and paying skyrocketing prices.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Any new taxes in northwest Indiana are not likely to be well-received by residents who are already protesting skyrocketing utility bills.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
There is a force skyrocketing to elite levels of golf, and his name is Chris Gotterup.
—Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
And as traders bought more, the gains gathered steam, resulting in skyrocketing prices.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
Faced with skyrocketing costs, some are delaying medical care or dropping their coverage.
—Meg Tanaka, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
The problem has been in the development of that platform, particularly the batteries, which have led to costs skyrocketing and Porsche getting cold feet.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2026
The average price of PepsiCo products climbed about 4% in the last two years after skyrocketing by double-digit percentages in 2022 and 2023.
—Dave Lozo, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyrocketing
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Navarro sought to pin the blame for soaring costs on former President Joe Biden, who left office over a year ago.—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2026
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Safeguarding athletes But what about junior- and novice-level skaters, including those not even teenagers yet, who may get to revel in the soaring highs of hearing a good score but must also suffer through the soul-crushing lows of hearing a poor one?—
Dave Skretta,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Now, decoupling supply chains are driving manufacturing growth in the West once more, electric vehicles and home heat pumps need to be plugged in, and the makers of AI’s large language models have ever-increasing power needs.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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The move marks a broader trend from the brand, which has been increasing its visibility to new markets through the world of sports, and, at the moment, none is hotter than that of F1.—
Blake Buettner,
Robb Report,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Skyrocketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyrocketing. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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