shoot up
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Looking up from the ground floor gives you a true sense of the scale of the behemoth orbiter, boosters and tank, which shoot up like skyscrapers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
That’s because gas prices tend to shoot up like a rocket and float down like a feather, energy experts say.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
A smaller but growing number of traders are betting prices could shoot up even further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
It says some of its members could even find themselves making a loss on diesel, which has seen its price shoot up particularly sharply.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
The next stage saw the fever shoot up again.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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