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rocket

verb as in shoot up

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As Washington and Beijing engaged in a tit-for-tat tariff fight in April, US duties rocketed to 145 percent, an added bill that Gracie had to absorb.

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The Wall Street bull got demolished by a rocket.

Musk’s space company, known for its rocket launches, has built a big satellite business serving military and intelligence agencies.

In 2019, five Russian nuclear engineers died in a rocket engine explosion which some Russian and Western experts said was linked to the Burevestnik.

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The intelligence shows Iranian-backed Hezbollah is restocking rockets, antitank missiles and artillery, the people said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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