towered

verb

past tense of tower
as in surged

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for towered
  1. rose
  2. climbed
  3. ascended
  4. mounted
  5. lifted
  6. soared
  7. aspired
  8. arose
Verb
  • The price swung between $72 and $102 last month as hopes rose and fell that the United States and Iran could reach an agreement that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Middle East again to deliver crude worldwide.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the share of California public safety employees with at least 15 years of tenure dramatically rose from about 10% in 1996 to 47% in 2024.
    — Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of rose
Verb
  • Back on the job the morning after the alert was lifted, Isidro threw a rope over an avocado tree about 20 feet (6 meters) high and climbed up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The average freight rate climbed 9 percent percent year over year to $1,475 per 20-foot container (TEU).
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of climbed
Verb
  • Fitzpatrick ascended to the role after serving as the state treasurer and House budget chair.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Rowan ascended to the CEO role in 2021, and the company’s assets have swelled to over $1 trillion earlier this year.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of ascended
Verb
  • Reuters footage from the aftermath showed yellow trucks mounted on sheets of concrete, as survivors sifted through grey debris.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Just what Lee was thinking was drowned out by a TV mounted in the corner, blaring the news of the day, but the gist was clear.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of mounted
Verb
  • Tromso, the northernmost football club in the world to win a major national trophy, having lifted the Norwegian Cup in 1986 and 1996, are tricky opponents.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • WorldView-3 lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and has been orbiting Earth ever since.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of lifted
Verb
  • In Iran, the rate of inflation for food has soared by nearly 130% over the past 12 months, and people are having to buy food and medicine in installments, according to reports from Iranian media.
    — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Their odds of playing into October have soared from roughly 7 percent to better than 60 percent.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of soared
Verb
  • The site aspired to bring an insurgent, punk ethos to the political world.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • After working for more than a decade in club music’s trenches, the brothers now aspired to be not merely DJs, but a dance-music act known for spectacular live performances.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of aspired
Verb
  • The second of Pattinson’s meme contributions this summer arose from a movie that’s not even been released.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Some controversy arose when New Hampshire was not proposed to be in the first spot, despite a state law requiring the state hold first-in-the-nation primaries.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of arose
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