surged

past tense of surge

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for surged
Verb
  • Waiting until Nelson had finished a song, Selman whisked him and his band offstage and into a bus — just as intense rain and lightning erupted all around them.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Later, a geyser erupted, spawning eyeballs that float upward in bubbles.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 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
  • His arrest and subsequent charges rocketed him to international attention.
    Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • OpenAI, which rocketed into the mainstream following the release of its AI chatbot ChatGPT in 2022, is preparing to sell stock as part of a secondary sale that would value the company at roughly $500 billion, as CNBC reported in August.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Brooke gushed in the comments section.
    Jack Irvin, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The two gushed over each other at the altar with unforgettable vows for each other.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Huawei's market share in China jumped to 18% in the second quarter versus 15% in the same period last year, and the company is now the biggest smartphone vendor in China, Counterpoint Research data showed.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In July, listings for single-family homes jumped 28 percent year-over-year, to 11,800.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 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
  • For example, Doak kicked on so impressively at Middlesbrough in 2024-25 that his value increased to the point that Bournemouth paid £25m for him.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The rate of lifetime depression among women has increased by over 40% in the last decade, yet periods like postpartum and perimenopause remain under-addressed in mainstream mental health care.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Surged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surged. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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