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surges

  • plural of surge.
  • present tense form of surge (3rd person singular).

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Surges in agricultural commodity prices often come weeks after an initial geopolitical shock, Peak Trading Research analyst Dave Whitcomb said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Surges can lead to overloading and “catastrophic failure” of power lines, McCullough added.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

Surges in bond yields can reverse as quickly as they occur.

From Reuters • Oct. 10, 2023

Surges in cancellations in late 2021 and early 2022 lasted longer than they did before the pandemic, the GAO said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2023

You are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; But all the sea of sadness in my blood Surges, and ebbing, leaves my lips morose, Salt with the memory of the bitter flood.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles