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surging

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verb

present participle of surge

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for surging
Adjective
  • The National Interagency Fire Center reported that nearly 3 million acres have burned across the country since the start of the year, faster than the rolling 10-year average.
    Willem Marx, NPR, 28 June 2026
  • Cars will quickly overheat, and power outages and rolling brownouts are possible.
    Tammie Souza, CBS News, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • Bang My Box premiered on HBO on June 30, and is now streaming on HBO Max.
    Sean Mandell, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • The United States of Asian+America is now streaming on YouTube.
    Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • The skyrocketing prices have been a boon for big oil companies.
    Jerry McNerney, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
  • Now, the United States is experiencing its own blast of dangerous heat, particularly in the East, which is facing skyrocketing temperatures and high humidity.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Adjective
  • The hope was this would mean less swelling, less pain and, potentially, a significantly faster recovery.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • Another effective anti-swelling remedy is a delicious snack that may be hiding in the fridge.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to the department, adults nearby extinguished the flames by pouring water on the children until paramedics arrived.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • This includes pouring over hundreds of pages of documents and conducting on-site visits to see the situation on the ground.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Four years on from the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has proved remarkably resilient, shouldering sanctions, rocketing inflation, and depleted fiscal reserves.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • The vehicle that slammed into Susan Cameron’s car in September 2024 had been rocketing through a business district in Lenexa at more than 125 mph just before the crash, prosecutors said.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • The critic reviews of Supergirl didn’t wind up in the same galaxy as the overwhelming majority of the gushing first reaction crowd.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2026
  • In his weirdest picture—the late, baroque, campy Allegory of Faith—a bug-eyed female figure is shown clutching her chest, one foot balanced perilously on a globe, while a snake gushing blood from its jaws gyrates in the foreground.
    Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • As summer arrives, snow begins melting, ice hardens and rocks loosen, increasing the risk of falls and rockfall.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • When patients can’t pay, hospitals absorb the costs and pass them onto people with insurance by increasing prices, studies show.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 1 July 2026
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“Surging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surging. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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