meteorically
- a word derived from meteoric.
Example Sentences
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Though shares traded higher on their first day of trading—and have risen meteorically since—Wall Street scoffed at the attempted modernization.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
When Sherman emerged, meteorically, in the late 1970s, it was with an extended series of black and white photographs she took of herself.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
Elon Musk threw a surprising bone to Reddit GameStop investors early Monday, grilling Robinhood’s CEO on precisely why the trading app had halted buying for GameStop just as the stock was rising meteorically.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2021
A flip side is that the publishers who rise up Facebook ranking’s meteorically by optimizing their content for its algorithms tend to come crashing down in much the same fashion.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2018
The students, at least, swore by his name, and Fettes believed himself, and was believed by others, to have laid the foundations of success when he acquired the favour of this meteorically famous man.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
