rocketing

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Like his counterparts in Phoenix, dealer Matt Bowers was scratching his head earlier this year when he noticed Carvana’s Dallas store rocketing up the Stellantis sales charts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Without a resolution, the current crisis threatened to send oil prices rocketing as high as $167 a barrel by October and to add nearly 1.5 percentage points to the inflation rate, the Dallas Fed added.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

The alternative was bills rocketing and the "potential for blackouts, tipping people in poverty into not being able to pay their bills, even dying, and a winter of discontent".

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

After rocketing above $100 a barrel for the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, oil prices pared gains and slid back under the key threshold.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

A wonderful red dragon reared across the green cover, its claws outstretched, a shaft of flame rocketing from its mouth.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville