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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
skyrocket . - adjective Suddenly and rapidly
increased
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Examples
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Net profit for the same term skyrocketed 297 percent to W 703.6 billion.
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What Beck conveniently leaves out of his “analysis” is that tax rates skyrocketed from the highest marginal rate of 7% in 1915 to 77% in 1917.
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What Beck conveniently leaves out of his “analysis” is that tax rates skyrocketed from the highest marginal rate of 7% in 1915 to 77% in 1917.
Think Progress » McConnell Tries To Insist The GOP Isn’t Obstructionist: ‘It Is Simply Not True’ 2010
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Many of the industry's most successful video game titles skyrocketed to the top of the charts thanks to their emphasis on an excellent online multiplayer experience.
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The number of green-themed events has skyrocketed, which is great-but we must not forgo quality for quantity or action for awareness.
Summer Rayne Oakes: To cure green fatigue: Overcome green muscle memory 2008
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The use of the Luther Blisset name skyrocketed in the following weeks.
Red Pepper 2009
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LB Sean Fisher — Defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said Fisher "skyrocketed" this spring.
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And it's not that this was necessarily balloon payments that things kind of skyrocketed with interest rates.
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But Ms. Coad said the price of cattle feed "skyrocketed," and the couple sold their big cows, replacing them with Dexters, a small breed of cattle that range between 36 and 42 inches tall and can be used for both meat and milk.
Cows Go Mini 2008
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The consequence of a lack of liquidity for a company or institution is that the costs of hedging currency risks have "skyrocketed," said Maxime Tessier, head of foreign exchange at Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, Canada's largest pension fund with $155 billion under management.
Liquidity Troubles, Volatility Bedevil Currency Markets 2008
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