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hike

[hahyk] / haɪk /




VERB
raise, increase
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“The market is currently pricing in a roughly 50% probability of the next hike by the October meeting following this one,” the FX/rates strategist says in a research report.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

That followed forecast-topping US jobs figures Friday that ramped up rate hike talk.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Voters have not rejected a sales tax hike in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

An upward move this week would mark the first hike since September 2023, after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine beginning in February of the previous year drove an energy-price spike.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

One unchecked matter was an unfinished letter he had started when we’d taken a hike in Haiti.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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