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noun

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Recent Examples of soar
Verb
The yellow metal has soared more than 28% this year, surpassing its gain of 27% across last year. John Towfighi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2025 From 1980 to the early 2020s, inequality in the United States soared, with the top one-thousandth of the population doubling its share of overall wealth, to around 14 percent. Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
The big picture: Big infrastructure investors are eager to finance growing energy businesses as power needs for data centers, EVs and manufacturing soar. Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025 The platform’s soar in popularity benefited from backlash against Elon Musk and X following Musk’s political engagements, particularly from left-leaning users globally. Ece Yildirim, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soar
Verb
  • The country’s Kospi stock index rose 0.56% after the announcement, while the won weakened 0.58% to trade at 1,422 against the dollar.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The company’s revenue rose 73% to 208 million ringgit in 2024 from the previous year, with nearly half coming from Singapore.
    Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Conerly and several family members flew from Seattle to the other Washington.
    Ben Standig, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Chicago nearly tied it when Edgar Quero flew out to deep right field on a ball Lawrence Butler caught right in front of the wall.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Those unused hours can, however, be converted to service credit to increase their government pensions.
    Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • If elected, what would your top 3 policy priorities be? (1) Infrastructure in forms of roads and increased police and fire due to the growing population.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The stakes are high: Prescription drug spending continues its relentless climb, projected to grow at an average rate of 5% from 2021 to 2030.
    Yasser Almuaala, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The reading outpaced Reuters’ expectations of a 3.2% climb, and compares against 2.4% in March.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • As Neo has ascended, Partovi has not been afraid to call out the competition.
    Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • If a step can be taken back from counting all those wins, the takeaway from an early season game should be that Randy Vásquez is clearly ascending.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Uncertainty still hovers over Bryce Huff, a splash signing in 2024.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • From a terminal far out of harm’s way, drone pilots could hover in the sky for hours, soaking up surveillance information, building a case for precisely whom to bomb and when to do it.
    Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Thus, their asylum systems get little use compared with those of the U.S. or even Mexico, where asylum applications have skyrocketed in recent years.
    Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Growth in Fort Worth has skyrocketed, and the aging infrastructure can’t handle the current population, let alone the demands of rapid growth.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the ascent of Elaida means a reactionary who loves the color red and wants to Make the Aes Sedai Great Again is in charge.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
  • At the same time, Representative Newt Gingrich from Georgia was already in ascent, assuming the position of House Minority Whip in March 1989.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Soar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soar. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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