skyrocketed
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An openly gay artist, Guitarrica skyrocketed to fame when his mournful, late-night lament “El Conticinio” found viral success after he uploaded it to Soundcloud in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The cost of memory and storage chips inside iPhones, Macs and iPads has skyrocketed as demand for those chips from data centers has led to shortages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Carrey purchased the Los Angeles property for $3.8 million in 1994—the same year his career skyrocketed with the release of “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” “The Mask,” and “Dumb and Dumber.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the fields, the cost of diesel needed to run combines as farmers start harvesting soybeans, corn and other crops this month has skyrocketed more than 67 percent since February.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He compares his newfound sense of color to tulip mania, when the Dutch were so obsessed with tulips that everyone wanted them and the price of bulbs skyrocketed.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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