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soar

 
 
/sɔːr/ verb [I]

Definition

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 sth Under 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 soar The news sent shares soaring 12p to 170p.
(Definition of soar verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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