SOARS Synonyms: 125 Similar and Opposite Words

soars 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of soar

as in rises

to move or extend upward the Eiffel Tower soaring into the skies above Paris

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as in hovers

to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings bats soaring and swooping through the night air

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as in increases

to rise abruptly and rapidly gas prices soared overnight because of the shortage

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soars

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noun

plural of soar

as in climbs

the act or an instance of rising or climbing up the soar of the space shuttle never fails to inspire

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Verb

The business is really doing well as demand for fiber optic cables soars thanks to AI. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026 That soars to 50% Friday, 70% Saturday and 80% Sunday, according to the weather service. — Miami Herald Staff Report, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 Designed by French icons Jean Nouvel and the late Thierry Despont, the property soars 1,050 feet over bustling Midtown Manhattan and the Museum of Modern Art. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Under Baizhan’s shanyrak, a spiral of ceramic swallows and poppies soars toward the sky. — Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026 Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Drake’s HABIBTI soars 116-2 (returning to its peak) after it was reissued with four additional songs. — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2026 His delivery is a stark contrast to the recording, which soars almost reluctantly, and his voice is as determined as ever. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 San Miguel de Allende is celebrated for its thriving arts and culinary scenes, as well as Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel, the neo-Gothic church that soars above the historic city’s central plaza. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026 Although an 11-foot studio version often displayed at the Smithsonian Museum is more recognizable, the smaller iteration is what soars through space during the original series’ opening credits. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Sep. 2026

Noun

Diaz’s main character sees the crash of 1929 coming and shorts the entire stock market, so that, when the economy collapses, his private fortune soars. — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 The military has struggled to adequately pay salaries as inflation soars and state budgets shrink. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 At the other extreme, GDP soars, but so does unemployment, with nearly 14% of workers losing their jobs to AI and less than half of them finding new ones. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026 When Kit takes her whole family out onto the lawn of her uncle’s country home to watch Halley’s Comet, Gharavi’s camera spins around the night skies and Simon Goff’s ethereal score soars. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026 As a shocking chart by the Wall Street Journal illustrates, the amount of capital spent on non-data center construction in the US has quite literally fallen off a cliff, while the capital deployed to build data centers soars into the stratosphere. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026 When the majority is slim, any single lawmaker can become a kingmaker, determining whether a party’s agenda sinks or soars. — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Bareilles is mourning a few things — the deaths of close friends, dreams of easy fertility, assumptions of female autonomy, the American dream — but the music soars, more often than not. — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026 After a while, growth just soars, exceeding our imaginations. — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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South Korea's strong economic growth has been driven largely by semiconductor exports as global demand for computing power rises with the AI boom.

— Lim Hui Jie,Jenny Lee, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026
For those graduating from the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne (ECSCP), which was folded into the IFM in 2019 and focuses on fashion and couture craft and technique, the ratio rises to nearly 100 percent.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of rises

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Using photogammetry, a technique which renders 2D surfaces into 3D models, and game engines, Montoya directs a virtual drone that hovers over the ruins of cities and its strange, frozen residents.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
As Indy hovers above us, for instance, his legs and hips subtly shift.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of hovers

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In fact, studies show that caffeinated coffee increases colon contractions by 60% more than plain water.

— Jillian Kubala, HEALTH, 10 Nov. 2026
The issue has become increasingly important as the rapid expansion of AI increases demand for electricity across the country.

— Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of increases

Noun

Next, there's an altimeter for tracking your climbs during outdoor workouts like hikes and hill sprints, and covering flights of stairs.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
That ranks among the steepest year-over-year climbs tracked across outerwear categories this cycle.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of climbs

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The store is anchored by a central staircase with a wrought-iron banister that ascends sinuously to the second floor, where Kiton is introducing a more intimate space dedicated to customization and made-to-measure.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026
Finishing touches include a skylit stairwell that ascends to a rooftop deck offering open city skyline views, plus laundry facilities on both the basement and fourth levels.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of ascends

Verb

The next big test will be the demonstration flight of a Long March 10A rocket, which flies with a single core booster, and China’s new Mengzhou Moon ship to low-Earth orbit in early 2027.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
But in a town of heavyweight food and beverage brands from Chick-fil-A to Coca-Cola, Chicken Salad Chick still flies a bit under the radar, said its chief executive.

— Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of flies

Verb

This leads to a discrepancy that skyrockets as the number of vectors, N, increases.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
In his directorial debut, Early, who also wrote the film, plays Maddie, a blonde naif who skyrockets to viral fame for recipes created in the test kitchen of GourMaybe, a fictional but winkingly all-too-familiar online content hub.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026

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