1,400 new words in our dictionary! — Parasocial, glow-up, promposal & more
1,400 new words in our dictionary! — More

soared

verb

past tense of soar
1
as in climbed
to move or extend upward the Eiffel Tower soaring into the skies above Paris

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms
2
as in flew
to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings bats soaring and swooping through the night air

Synonyms & Similar Words
3
as in increased
to rise abruptly and rapidly gas prices soared overnight because of the shortage

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of soared Bond yields in Japan have soared to their highest levels in three decades, boosted by inflation, the Bank of Japan raising interest rates and investors’ concerns about the government’s spending plans. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026 Shares of Greenland Energy soared 159%, with Greenland Mines seen up more than 200% and Critical Metals Corp nearly 37% higher. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 From general productivity to gaming and high-level workstation tasks, the M5 Pro soared through our benchmarks. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026 During that same span, spending on information processing equipment has soared 51% to $752 billion. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026 Crude prices, which soared around 20% in September, have fallen over the past three days, but international benchmark Brent remains over $100 a barrel. — September 18, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 Over the years, Snoopy has soared as an astronaut, ice skater, millennium reveler and Beagle Scout, according to a news release. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026 Standing beneath the stars and stripes as our National Anthem filled Arrowhead and a B-2 soared overhead was one of them. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026 High school students permitted to use ChatGPT as a study aid soared through practice questions, but performed worse on tests than peers without AI once the tool was taken away. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soared
  1. climbed
  2. hovered
  3. increased
  4. rose
  5. glided
  6. skyrocketed
  7. ascended
  8. sailed
Verb
  • Suicide remains the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, and CDC data released this year show firearm suicides actually climbed to their highest level on record in 2025, topping 28,000.
    — Courtney Marx, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
  • California’s median home price climbed back above $900,000 in August, according to the California Association of Realtors.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of climbed
Verb
  • Measles rates in the country hovered around 100 to 300 cases total between 2021 and 2025.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
  • After sailing about half an hour, Choi’s navy yard utility boat slowed and hovered – never fully stopping as the water was far deeper than the length of the anchor.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of hovered
Verb
  • Tensions have surged in the West Bank, and extremist Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians have increased exponentially, emboldened by right-wing, ultra-nationalist politicians in Israel's government.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Now, with growing bipartisan opposition to the rapid buildout of data centers suggest that even ordinary residents of communities and voters have increased power to help pace the frontier from the bottom up.
    — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of increased
Verb
  • Natural gas used for electricity generation rose 87% between 2014 and 2024.
    — Joe McGee, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Ralph Lauren’s latest quarterly report showed revenue rose 14%, led by demand from younger shoppers as well as affluent ones.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of rose
Verb
  • The pinkish squid glided two miles beneath the surface, its long, pale legs trailing from undulating fins, stunning scientists who know remarkably little about its diet, behavior or reproduction.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Merino glided away from challenges to keep Arsenal in control.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of glided
Verb
  • The number of adults over 30 who took psilocybin in the past year has skyrocketed, up 188 percent between 2019 and 2023, according to a 2025 release from Annals of Internal Medicine.
    — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • While earlier forecasts from the California Association of Realtors projected that mortgage rates would remain below 6% in 2026, mortgage rates have since skyrocketed passed 7%.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of skyrocketed
Verb
  • Hanson made his fame as one of the three Hanson brothers — including Isaac and Zac — who ascended to pop stardom in the late ’90s.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The first reigning queen of Japan, Suiko ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in 593 CE and presided over a flowering of Buddhism under her regent, Prince Shotoku.
    — Liz Regalia, Parents, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of ascended
Verb
  • The family sailed on the Lusitania in 1914, a year before a German torpedo sank the ship and killed nearly twelve hundred people.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Wearing a headband and a hard look, Chen took a breath and sailed over a man and two motorcycles.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of sailed

Browse Nearby Words

soar
soared
soaring
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Soared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soared. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Why do we use apostrophes to show possession?

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Back to School Vocabulary

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Words of the Week - Sept. 25
See More

Popular

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
image of the words cracker fly and sale arranged in a triangle with the word fire in the middle
Triple Play Quiz Find the word that pairs with each of the three g...
See All