spike
Example Sentences
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Neurons from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients showed unusual firing spikes and timing changes across multiple electrical measurements, creating a distinct signature for each condition.
From Science Daily
Artificial intelligence workloads spike and fall depending on capital flows and investor appetite.
From Salon
Silver bulls said the current gold-to-silver price ratio of about 60 could shrink significantly—meaning silver prices rise relative to gold prices—before it approaches the roughly 30 reached during silver’s 2011 price spike.
In contrast, T cells exposed to the vaccine alone did not show this spike.
From Science Daily
Coupang spikes after a report that a former employee deleted breached customer information without transferring it to a third party.
From Barron's
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