meteoric
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Jacob had a meteoric climb from being an unranked university student in 2024 to the world's top 50 a year later - but he has recently hit a plateau.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026
It was such a meteoric rise that U.S. manager Mauricio Pochettino had hardly seen more than a few clips of him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026
The jump in SpaceX shares has increasingly looked meteoric.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026
Legacy satellite stocks became hot properties ahead of the SpaceX IPO, but time is running out for the companies to justify their meteoric gains.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026
Imagine what it must have been like to watch the meteoric rise of Regina and Louis Borgenicht through the eyes of one of their offspring.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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