surged

past tense of surge

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surged
Verb
  • Not the grand slam that had Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal pounding his fist into his glove as Thomas circled the bases and Progressive Field erupted.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Mission Viejo’s football team erupted for 17 points in the fourth quarter Friday to rally past host Lincoln of San Diego 34-24 in a clash of top public school programs in Southern California.
    Dan Albano, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Today, that number has skyrocketed.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sales of EVs skyrocketed by 19% to a total of 10,671 sold in August.
    Jamie L. LaReau, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Inside the airy, tiled space in the Wedgewood Houston neighborhood, diners linger over baskets of still-warm croissants, artfully poured café au lait, tuna carpaccio, and a dangerously good French toast topped with berries and chantilly cream.
    Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Kingdom has poured resources into logistics, mining, renewables, technology, creative industries, and advanced manufacturing—aiming to be a producer, not merely a consumer, of sophisticated goods and services.
    Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Grisly footage of the shooting rocketed across social media.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Shoplifting became a political lighting rod, and videos of thieves smashing store windows and grabbing merchandise rocketed across the news and social media as a symbol of a breakdown across cities.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kirk reached up with his right hand as blood gushed from the left side of his neck.
    Eric Tucker, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For Valentine’s Day 2020, the couple donned matching pajamas covered with Bagel’s face, and the two gushed to PEOPLE about loving their little family.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Over the same time period, the S&P 500 jumped 20%.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jungwirth pulled out a gun, jumped over the counter and pointed the gun at the 38-year-old clerk.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By the time Journalism and jockey Umberto Rispoli began passing other horses and taking aim at Fierceness with the rally that had won him the Santa Anita Derby, Preakness and Haskell Stakes, the leader had spurted clear by 2-1/2 lengths turning into the homestretch.
    Kevin Modesti, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The supporters’ handheld smoke bombs spurted plumes of royal blue, the apparatus and color foreign to the home stadium of the orange and black Giants.
    Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That Carroll took such umbrage only increased Harbaugh’s smile, making for a better story.
    Jay Paris, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Plenty of timepiece brands increased their prices, too, in response to those initial tariff figures back in April, according to Hodinkee.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Surged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surged. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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