skyrocket
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Wall Street expectations for an interest-rate hike at the Fed’s next big meeting in mid-September would skyrocket.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Wiens noted US consumers also saw the cost of eggs skyrocket after a bird flu outbreak disrupted production, and argued that supply management helped shield Canadians from similar price spikes.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Brown’s move to Meta underscores the increasing demand for top executives with experience developing computing infrastructure as AI use continues to skyrocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
As governments and tech firms race to build data centres to train and run artificial intelligence, SK hynix -- a supplier to industry behemoth Nvidia -- has seen profits and its share price skyrocket.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I didn’t expect fundamental deterioration in the underlying mortgage pools to hit critical levels for a couple years,” he said—when the teaser rates would vanish and monthly payments would skyrocket.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Already big companies have begun rationing AI as employee usage of the “tokens” that measure chatbot and agent use skyrockets, without necessarily helping productivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Samsung, which makes memory chips essential for AI data centres, has also seen its value and profits soar as global demand skyrockets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
Directed by Jay Roach and written by Tony McNamara, Theo is an architect whose career collapses at the same time as his wife's career as an up-and-coming chef skyrockets.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
The same is true of Fourth of July equipment, flags and bunting and skyrockets.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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While no agency tracks these cases nationwide, three firms that help secure these kinds of residences said interest in so-called golden visas has skyrocketed in the past five years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Novo’s capital expenditures skyrocketed by 664% in three years to about $6.5 billion in 2024, regulatory filings show, not including the $11 billion acquisition of Catalent’s manufacturing facilities.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
SpaceX has delivered its first-ever quarterly business report, which showed revenue nearly doubled but its spending skyrocketed.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Audiobooks are also sharing in the boom, with Spotify reporting that searches for "The Odyssey" translations have skyrocketed by 310 percent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
After her death in 1982, their value skyrocketed, with MoMA paying nearly two million to add one to its permanent collection.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Now, millions of Californians are losing their health coverage, and millions more are being forced to pay skyrocketing costs,” SEIU-UHW Press Secretary Renee Saldana wrote in a statement to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Consumer activity is anemic while debt defaults are skyrocketing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Vozinha's heroics sparked a global following, with his Instagram audience skyrocketing from about 50,000 before the tournament to more than 29 million.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The artificial-intelligence boom has led to memory shortages and skyrocketing prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
An effective test-prep class—one that drills students repeatedly on the kinds of questions they will encounter on a specific test—can, in a given year, send test scores skyrocketing.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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