skyrocket
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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
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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
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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
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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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