SOARS Synonyms: 125 Similar and Opposite Words

soars 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of soar

as in rises

to move or extend upward the Eiffel Tower soaring into the skies above Paris

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as in hovers

to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings bats soaring and swooping through the night air

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as in increases

to rise abruptly and rapidly gas prices soared overnight because of the shortage

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soars

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noun

plural of soar

as in climbs

the act or an instance of rising or climbing up the soar of the space shuttle never fails to inspire

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Verb

That soars to 50% Friday, 70% Saturday and 80% Sunday, according to the weather service. — Miami Herald Staff Report, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 Designed by French icons Jean Nouvel and the late Thierry Despont, the property soars 1,050 feet over bustling Midtown Manhattan and the Museum of Modern Art. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Under Baizhan’s shanyrak, a spiral of ceramic swallows and poppies soars toward the sky. — Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026 Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Drake’s HABIBTI soars 116-2 (returning to its peak) after it was reissued with four additional songs. — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2026 His delivery is a stark contrast to the recording, which soars almost reluctantly, and his voice is as determined as ever. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 San Miguel de Allende is celebrated for its thriving arts and culinary scenes, as well as Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel, the neo-Gothic church that soars above the historic city’s central plaza. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026 Although an 11-foot studio version often displayed at the Smithsonian Museum is more recognizable, the smaller iteration is what soars through space during the original series’ opening credits. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Sep. 2026 Now, don’t be surprised if Biird soon soars into the upper stratosphere of Irish music. — Dan Kelly august 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

Noun

Diaz’s main character sees the crash of 1929 coming and shorts the entire stock market, so that, when the economy collapses, his private fortune soars. — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 The military has struggled to adequately pay salaries as inflation soars and state budgets shrink. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 At the other extreme, GDP soars, but so does unemployment, with nearly 14% of workers losing their jobs to AI and less than half of them finding new ones. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026 When Kit takes her whole family out onto the lawn of her uncle’s country home to watch Halley’s Comet, Gharavi’s camera spins around the night skies and Simon Goff’s ethereal score soars. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026 As a shocking chart by the Wall Street Journal illustrates, the amount of capital spent on non-data center construction in the US has quite literally fallen off a cliff, while the capital deployed to build data centers soars into the stratosphere. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026 When the majority is slim, any single lawmaker can become a kingmaker, determining whether a party’s agenda sinks or soars. — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Bareilles is mourning a few things — the deaths of close friends, dreams of easy fertility, assumptions of female autonomy, the American dream — but the music soars, more often than not. — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026 After a while, growth just soars, exceeding our imaginations. — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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Pay that rises with credentials, a clear schedule and predictable work can do more for retention than a signing bonus.

— Alok Chanani, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Step up to the more powerful rear-drive model and output rises to 282 hp, with a larger 77-kWh battery.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of rises

Verb

As Indy hovers above us, for instance, his legs and hips subtly shift.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
But when Alexander saw the green machine, the tree excavator, feet away from the 100-year-old oak tree that hovers over the corner of Salem Drive and Idlewood Circle, that was not fine.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of hovers

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Next, there's an altimeter for tracking your climbs during outdoor workouts like hikes and hill sprints, and covering flights of stairs.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
That ranks among the steepest year-over-year climbs tracked across outerwear categories this cycle.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of climbs

Verb

Rising over Beira Lake, Colombo Lotus Tower in South Asia ascends 1,168 feet and is designed to resemble a blooming lotus, a symbol of purity and renewal in Sri Lankan culture.

— Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026
Washington’s offensive line poses too many questions even if Daniels ascends.

— Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of ascends

Verb

That’s a good thing, because the Viceroy flies lower than the masts of larger sailboats and much lower than, say, the upper decks of a cruise ship.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2026
The company flies to private terminals in Aspen, Colorado; Los Cabos, Mexico; Los Angeles (Van Nuys); Maui; Miami; New York (Westchester and NYC); and West Palm Beach, Florida.

— Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of flies

Verb

This leads to a discrepancy that skyrockets as the number of vectors, N, increases.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
In his directorial debut, Early, who also wrote the film, plays Maddie, a blonde naif who skyrockets to viral fame for recipes created in the test kitchen of GourMaybe, a fictional but winkingly all-too-familiar online content hub.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026

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