vertiginous

Example Sentences

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By the time hostilities commenced in the Middle East it had halved, and Michael Saylor’s bitcoin vehicle suffered an even more vertiginous drop, from north of $450 last summer to a February trough of $106.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

To call the experience of seeing it vertiginous, dizzying, eye-opening and a bit frustrating would be an understatement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Arguably the most significant development in efforts to curb climate change -- the vertiginous cost reductions of solar and wind power, batteries and electric vehicles -- was seeded long before Paris.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Violeta Autumn’s vertiginous redwood-and-concrete house perched along a cliff in Sausalito — a site others deemed unbuildable — demonstrates how terrain could inspire formal innovation.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

She finds Vivian’s parents’ full names in the passenger records log— Patrick and Mary Power from County Galway, Ireland—and feels a vertiginous thrill, as if fictional characters have suddenly sprung to life.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline