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skyrocket

[skahy-rok-it] / ˈskaɪˌrɒk ɪt /


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It started on a platform called Popshoplive to sell Hello Kitty and other items, but sales didn’t skyrocket until it switched to TikTok Shop in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

"The way rugby's going and what Pollock is doing, his value over the next couple of years will skyrocket, and I think the value of rugby will."

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Premiums skyrocket when enrollment is delayed until later years, because insurers must account for the higher probability of the insured person making immediate claims, giving less time for the insurer to collect and invest premiums.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Taxpayers will get socked with the bill later, and the cost will skyrocket if there’s a stock-market downturn, as sooner or later there will be.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

“I didn’t expect fundamental deterioration in the underlying mortgage pools to hit critical levels for a couple years,” he said—when the teaser rates would vanish and monthly payments would skyrocket.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Already big companies have begun rationing AI as employee usage of the “tokens” that measure chatbot and agent use skyrockets, without necessarily helping productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Singapore's economy grew six percent year-on-year in the first quarter as demand skyrockets for artificial intelligence chips, balancing the fallout from the Middle East war, the government said Monday.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.

From MarketWatch Apr. 18, 2026

Directed by Jay Roach and written by Tony McNamara, Theo is an architect whose career collapses at the same time as his wife's career as an up-and-coming chef skyrockets.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2025

The same is true of Fourth of July equipment, flags and bunting and skyrockets.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

The salience of A.I. concerns has skyrocketed overnight.

From Slate Sep. 19, 2026

Shares of Generac Holdings skyrocketed late Wednesday after the maker of residential and industrial power generators signed a deal of up to $8 billion with Amazon.com for backup-power generators for data centers.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Flanders said beach keys became more controversial as prices skyrocketed.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

The amount the city pays each year in settlements and jury verdicts has skyrocketed, from $64 million about a decade ago to $289 million last year.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Since war started, prices of food and everything else had skyrocketed.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

For Mancuso, her already-high anxiety about her son's well-being is skyrocketing.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

But the unyielding free market advocate likely became just as well known for his opposition to Proposition 103, the landmark 1988 insurance initiative that regulated the industry following a period of skyrocketing auto premiums.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

This book is widely credited with the skyrocketing sales of vitamin C at the time, a trend that continues today.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

“And both closed models and open models are skyrocketing in use.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

An effective test-prep class—one that drills students repeatedly on the kinds of questions they will encounter on a specific test—can, in a given year, send test scores skyrocketing.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove




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