soar

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Rather than soar, her words hit home - sometimes forcefully, sometimes gently, but always understandable, approachable, and emotionally engaging.

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  1. intransitive verb To rise, fly, or glide high and with little apparent effort.
  2. intransitive verb To climb swiftly or powerfully.
  3. intransitive verb To glide in an aircraft while maintaining altitude.
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  • Rather than soar, her words hit home - sometimes forcefully, sometimes gently, but always understandable, approachable, and emotionally engaging. —  Pajamas Media
  • As revenues continue to soar, and profits continue to climb, CEO Brian Scudamore has changed the brand's tagline .......
  • Ben Bernanke's announcement that the Fed was buying Treasuries and sucking up bad mortgages was the cosmetic reason for financials to soar, an equally compelling reason may have been the massive but little-noted short squeeze that the announcement, combined with large government purchases of stakes in these companies, engendered. —  BloggingStocks
  • Oil production and refining operations shut down for weeks causing gasoline prices to soar, along with other energy prices. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
  • As rumors of a Yahoo hiring freeze soar, the company's SVP North American Sales David Karnstedt told the crowd at today's William Blair and Company's annual growth stock conference Yahoo "continue [s] to hire aggressively." —  ClickZ News Blog
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soar:   soars ·  Soar ·  soared ·  soaring
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  1. Middle English soren, from Old French essorer, from Vulgar Latin *exaurāre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin aura, air (from Greek, breeze; see aura).

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  1. from soar, v.
 

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