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soar | American Dictionary

soar
verb[ I ]
us/sɔr, soʊr/

soarverb[I] (INCREASE QUICKLY)

to increase or go up quickly to a high level:
temperatures/prices soared
My spirits soared when I heard the good news.

soarverb[I] (RISE IN AIR)

(esp. of a bird or aircraft) to rise or fly high in the air:
Planes soared overhead.
If you say that a mountain, building, or other object soars, you mean that it has great height:
The mountain soars 10,000 feet above the village.

soar | Business English

soar
verb[ I ]
uk /sɔːr/us
to increase quickly in amount, number, value, or level:
Corn, soybean, and wheat prices all soared this year.
The organic industry's sales are soaring.
As prices tumbled, farmers watched their debt soar.
soar from sth to sthUnder her editorship its circulation has soared from 5,000 to 30,000.
The Dow Jones was up 0.88% at 10,204.93 after soaring more than 210 points early in the day.
shares/stocks soarThe news sent shares soaring 12p to 170p.

Examples of soar

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Merchants and landowners (including tribal chiefs) made quick for tunes, while prices soared, to the detriment of the poor.
A professional family background soared to over 20 per cent whereas the working-class category shrank notably.
In 1743, as the city quickly grew restless from a wave of soaring prices, grumbling voices were heard everywhere.
Though the individual recipient organisations are often distinctly modest institutions, donors have nonetheless invested this work with soaring ambitions.
At its peak, the premium soared to 30 percent greater than its equivalent in silver bullion.
The soaring diagonal truss opened out the house to the night sky.
Their nervousness sent interest rates soaring and disrupted international ®nancial transactions.
The pension contribution rates characteristically soared in the late 1990s, but not to the 1980s levels.
There were two progressive forms produced for irregulars (standing, driving) and one for regulars (soaring).
Grain prices fluctuated and soared, very often many times a day.
Nevertheless, the pitch of discussions on the necessity of private health insurance soared.
Food prices soared as the military authorities withdrew available stocks from the commercial market.
In fact, its popularity soared with the expansion of the mass media from radio and television to cinema.
By 1994, however, that amount had soared to $61.55, only 37th best among states.
Grain production soared when the commercial situation justified it, and declined without any sense of catastrophe when it did not.
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